The day before I was to be made Crown Prince, my mother publicly exposed me as having no royal blood.
Meanwhile, Li Mao, a young eunuch I had never given a second glance, suddenly became my father's only son and was named Crown Prince.
I knelt in the center of Taiming Palace and begged my father to remember the bond we had shared as father and son for over twenty years and investigate the matter again.
But without hesitation, he had me thrown into the death cells, to be executed after autumn.
Even my fiancée, Lin Yue, abandoned me. On the day Li Mao was named Crown Prince, she married him and entered the Eastern Palace as his Crown Princess.
On their wedding night, Li Mao brought Su Yuelai to the dungeon and humiliated me.
He castrated me with a knife, then branded the character for "slave" onto my face with a red-hot iron.
"Ying Zheng, you're nothing but a complete fool! From now on, the Crown Prince's position and this splendid realm will all be mine!"
At last, as I roared in despair, Li Mao killed me with a single stroke.
Consumed by hatred, my soul drifted through the palace for seven days before it finally faded away.
Who would have thought that when I opened my eyes again, I would be back on the day my mother accused me of having no royal blood?
