Elder Sister, I'll Happily Take the Crown Prince's Consort Position You Don't Want

My elder sister was kidnapped on her way to compete for the position of Crown Princess.

By the time Father rescued her, she was already carrying a child of unknown parentage.

To protect the family's reputation, the elders all said that a dose of abortifacient herbs would settle the matter, but my elder sister refused, swearing she would die before taking them.

My stepmother and Father doted on her and couldn't bring themselves to play the villain, so they ordered me, their concubine-born daughter, to deliver the bowl of abortifacient medicine.

Three months later, my elder sister danced so beautifully at the selection banquet that she captivated everyone and won the Crown Prince's jade scepter.

She married in splendor, wearing her phoenix coronet and wedding robes, while every match proposed for me fell through.

Three times I was engaged, and all three of my fiances died sudden deaths.

From then on, I became notorious as a woman who brought death to her husbands. I wasted away at home until I was an old maid, becoming the laughingstock of the capital.

Then, on the day my elder sister was installed as empress, she summoned me to the palace.

"If it weren't for you, my child wouldn't have died!"

"Do you know? He wasn't some bastard. He was the only child of Yuge and me!"

I was forced to drink poisoned wine, dying with hatred and my eyes wide open.

When I opened my eyes again, I had returned to the day I delivered the medicine.

Looking at my elder sister's still-flat belly, I quietly switched the bowls.

Since she was willing to do anything to keep this ill-fated child, I would help her get her wish.