The Princess Stole My Husband, but She Can't Steal My Natural Fertility

I was the daughter of the princess's wet nurse. Because I was naturally plump, the princess despised me time and again.

My own mother gave all her affection to the slender princess, calling me an animal and a lowly slave. She said my figure was indecent and that I was only fit to serve men in a brothel.

Unexpectedly, the newly crowned third-place scholar of this year's imperial exams took a fancy to me and asked the princess to arrange our marriage.

The top scholar had already been promised to the princess as her consort. We were to marry on the same day, and the princess sent a whole crowd of concubines to the third-place scholar just to spite me.

"A lowly slave like you, so what if you become the third-place scholar's legal wife? You'll end up in a brothel sooner or later!"

But not only did I avoid ending up in a brothel, I also had the rare constitution to conceive easily, and gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, just one year after our wedding.

Auspicious signs appeared on the day I gave birth, and the emperor promoted my husband, raising him to the highest ranks of the court and making him chancellor.

Meanwhile, the top scholar the princess married achieved nothing and never had a child.

Jealous that a mere servant had a better life than her, the princess went mad during a palace banquet and pushed me into a lake, drowning me.

When I opened my eyes again, the princess had chosen the third-place scholar to be her consort first.

"This time, I will be the one to give birth to twins! If auspicious signs appear, Father might even name me crown princess."

I smiled.

She probably still didn't know that the third-place scholar was infertile, and ordinary women could never conceive his child!