In the Second Month After I Bore Him a Child, He Asked the Emperor to Send Me Away for a Political Marriage

I was the adopted daughter of the General's Manor. The year I came of age, I conceived a child with the third prince, Jin Feng. Everyone in the capital knew that ever since he was a boy, he had loved the General's legitimate daughter, my adoptive elder sister. She spent three years guarding the northern frontier with our father, and the day she returned to the capital was to be their wedding day. But she didn't come back from the spring banquet that night, so I went in her place. In the imperial garden, Prince Jin Feng, drunk and bleary-eyed, mistook me for her in a grotto beneath a rockery and clung to me for half the night. The child was two months old when the emperor put pressure on him in the name of "continuing the imperial clan." At last, he relented: I could enter his household as a secondary consort, but the child would be raised under the primary consort's name.