For eighteen years, I did whatever I pleased. Then, out of nowhere, my birth parents came and took me back.
My adoptive father, who commanded a hundred thousand troops, cried like a child. "My girl, what if they bully you when you go back?"
I patted him reassuringly. "I hear my birth father is pretty powerful too."
Sure enough, my birth father sat in the Golden Throne Hall and announced excitedly,
"As the only princess of the Great Xia Dynasty, you will marry Marquis Jingyuan, Huo Ziyuan."
I looked at the man in purple robes in the hall, and my right eyelid twitched for no reason.
That night, I was jolted awake by a bucket of cold water.
Huo Ziyuan stood over me, an arm around a woman, looking down at me.
"What princess? You're just a country bumpkin. If you know what's good for you, you'll give up the empress's throne once I take power. Jiaojiao is the only one who can be my empress."
I wiped the water from my face and sent my father a message by carrier pigeon in the middle of the night.
"You there? How about a rebellion?"
