I was an ordinary corpse retriever on the Yellow River. By chance, I saved the Crown Prince and a young prince, and became pregnant with the Crown Prince’s child.
But on our wedding day, the Crown Prince never showed up. Instead, he took the betrothal gifts to marry the Prime Minister’s daughter.
When I tried to get an explanation, the young prince, Xiao Ziyan, stopped me.
He confessed that he was the one who had gotten me pregnant, and said he was willing to marry me and care for me for the rest of my life.
A month after my wedding, bandits attacked our village. Not one of its 110 households survived.
Looking at the mountains of corpses, I was overcome with grief, and lost the baby, too.
Xiao Ziyan stayed by my side day and night. It took a long time, but he finally helped me emerge from the darkness.
Three years later, I became pregnant again. I wanted to share the happy news with Xiao Ziyan right away, but accidentally overheard his conversation with a friend.
“Ziyan, the Crown Prince is suppressing you so badly now. Doesn’t it bother you? Back then, you married Mu Qingqing for his sake, and even claimed a child that wasn’t yours.”
“I didn’t do it for him. I did it for Wan’er. In the Great Yin Dynasty, the eldest son takes precedence over the legitimate son. If Mu Qingqing gave birth to a prince first, how would Wan’er ever find a place in the imperial harem?”
“I know you’re madly in love with Lin Wan’er, but did you really have to wipe out the entire Yellow River village to silence everyone? The corpse retrievers were practically wiped out after that.”
“I had no choice. The people of Yellow River village knew too much. To eliminate any future trouble, they all had to die!”
I used to think that falling in love with the Crown Prince was the biggest mistake of my life. I never imagined that falling in love with Xiao Ziyan would be an even worse one.
