A Dazzling Dance, Drunk in Chang'an

Strong Female Lead - Raising a Child - Food - Chasing His Wife - Mind Reading - The Heroine Stands Alone I was a dancer at Chang’an’s entertainment quarter. He was the regent, a man with power over the entire court. At a palace banquet, my stunning dance captured his heart. He brought me into his household in a grand eight-palanquin procession. I thought we would grow old together, but then he brought a seductive dancer into the manor. Only then did I realize that deep, unchanging love and a lifelong partnership were nothing but a fantasy. So, on the first night he spent in the courtesan’s quarters, I left him a divorce agreement, took the son still in my belly, emptied the manor of its gold and silver, and quietly slipped away. I went to the water towns of Jiangnan and put down roots in Suzhou with my excellent cooking. Strangely, after I arrived in Suzhou, I could hear the thoughts of the child in my belly, and his inner voice helped me avert one crisis after another. Five years later, my five-year-old son had become a renowned young doctor in Suzhou. One day, he brought home an injured man. As I wiped the blood from the man’s face, I realized that the man I had fled from five years ago had appeared before me again. But my heart was already still as water. No matter how he threatened, tempted, repented, or apologized, I refused to leave with him. Late that night, I packed our belongings and quietly returned to Chang’an with my son. From then on, word spread that the regent had gone mad searching everywhere for his former princess consort. My son and I exchanged a smile. We opened a restaurant in Chang’an and became wealthy businesswomen in our own right.