My imperial brother felt sorry for me, since I had loved the general for years. At a palace banquet, he drugged the general with an aphrodisiac and sent him to my chambers.
I was forced to help him relieve the poison, and we spent a night in passion.
When he came to his senses, Xiao Yun demanded that my brother marry me off to him. But after our wedding, he left his pregnant wife behind and went to the frontier.
Three years later, at a family banquet, our daughter called him “Father.”
His childhood sweetheart, whom he had cherished, was so distraught that she ran outside, where she was abducted by villains and violated until she died.
From then on, Xiao Yun never left the capital again. He spent every day with me and our daughter, and I thought he had finally come around.
But on our daughter's birthday, he personally fed her a poisoned pastry, his eyes full of cold resolve.
“If it weren't for you two, Ah Tang would never have suffered such humiliation. Ever since she died, I've been plagued by nightmares. I was just waiting for the day I could send you to hell to pay for what you did to her!”
Blood spilled from my daughter's mouth and mine. Only then did I understand that Xiao Yun hated us to the core.
When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the day Xiao Yun was drugged with the aphrodisiac.
Watching desire cloud his eyes, I struck him hard enough to knock him out, then fled my chambers to find his childhood sweetheart.
