[The heroine is not a virgin, the male lead gets no redemption arc, and the second male lead wins her over. Mature content, read with care!]
Yundi was Prince Li’s sharpest blade, as well as his secret bedchamber maid, hidden from public view.
Prince Li promised her that she would be free after ten years.
But beside the bed where he lay with the Princess Consort, Yundi heard him say with her own ears, “A plaything has no right to make demands.”
The night she left, rain poured without end.
A young general held an oil-paper umbrella over her, shielding her from the rain.
Later, Prince Li, who held power over the court, finally abandoned the authority he had valued as dearly as his life. His eyes bloodshot, he knelt before her.
“Yundi, come back with me. If you return, the position of principal wife will be yours, and you’ll be the only woman in the prince’s household. I’m begging you.”
But the general’s sword was already at his throat.
“Too late.” Yundi stroked her gently rounded belly and nestled in the general’s arms. “Your Highness, why humiliate yourself by making demands of a plaything?”
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