My Lord, Your Death-Exemption Token Has Expired

My husband, Xiao Jue, whose military exploits were legendary, brought his beautiful mistress, who was three months pregnant with his child, and knelt before my father's sickbed. He had not come to beg forgiveness. He had come to ask for a title. "Your Majesty, Ruyan and I are deeply in love, and she is already carrying my child. I humbly beg Your Majesty, in recognition of the blood I have shed and the wounds I have suffered for the Great Xia realm, to grant Ruyan a proper status, and to give my unborn child a future as well." His voice rang like a great bell, and he stood proud and unyielding, as though he were not asking for a favor but demanding the reward he was rightfully owed. All the imperial physicians and palace attendants in the room, along with several ministers overseeing the government, kept their heads bowed. In that vast