On the night of the wedding, Queen Mother Zhang Xian gave me a box of "small gifts".
Inside the brocade box were the bloody fingers of Vice Admiral Xiao Heng, and the note read: "The new queen needs to learn the methods of the Ai family."
I am the puppet carefully chosen by the Queen Mother to hold the phoenix seal and listen to the government behind the curtain for her.
And Xiao Heng was the war blade she chose to fight on my behalf.
The General's Mansion is the only place where I can breathe freely.
When Xiao Heng taught me how to hold a pen to criticize, he put his palm on the back of my hand: "Wherever the empress points, my blood will be spilled."
On the night of the palace coup, the rebels surrounded the Yangxin Palace and clamored to clear the emperor.
I drew my sword and chopped off the armrest of the dragon chair: "The Ai family will kill you bunch of traitors first!"
The palace door suddenly opened, and Xiao Heng came running in covered in blood and black armor.
The Queen Mother smiled and stroked her hands behind the screen: "Good boy, you finally learned how to use a knife."
But the tip of his sword was dripping with blood and he knelt down: "I came late, which frightened the queen."
The three thousand cavalrymen outside the palace, their swords shining like snow, are all dead soldiers I raised.
When the screen collapsed, the Queen Mother discovered——
The blood stains on the dragon chair were my makeup gift to her.
