From the Start, I Bought Fake Contraceptive Soup and Threw Up at Court While Pregnant

Political intrigue + Master-servant romance, love after marriage + Angsty love + Revenge + Sweet romance and raising a child

Shen Zhiwei, an illegitimate daughter of the Shen family, had spent three years anxiously serving Lord Pei, the powerful and extremely fastidious head of the cabinet, just to keep her secure position as a female secretary in the chief minister’s office. Any maid or female official who entertained improper thoughts about the chief minister was banished to the frontier. Only the honest and proper Shen Zhiwei enjoyed a peaceful life.

Until one night, the chief minister was ambushed and infected with a love curse, and Shen Zhiwei was forced to become his “antidote.” Terrified afterward, she sneaked off to a little pharmacy on the corner and bought the cheapest contraceptive decoction. She thought that would be the end of it, but the pharmacy had sold her a fake medicine that had gone bad from damp!

Three months later, during a cabinet meeting in front of the ministers of the Six Ministries, Shen Zhiwei smelled the tribute sea bass and suddenly retched beside the chief minister’s desk! It was even more damning than climbing into his bed! She called in sick that very night and went to the black market to find a midwife who could end the pregnancy. She had barely lain down when troops from the Court of Judicial Review surrounded the black market. The chief minister, icy as frost, strode toward her. He raised her chin with the tip of his sword. “Secretary Shen, if you dare lay a hand on my child, are you ready to see your entire clan wiped out?”

Later, all of the capital knew that Lord Pei, the ruthless and cold-blooded chief minister who could turn the tide of court politics with a flick of his hand by day, would shamelessly carry a bowl of bird’s nest soup at night and compete with his newborn for his wife’s attention.