Climbing the Social Ladder: The Emperor’s Cherished Favorite Is Sweet and Cunning!

“Husband, when will you give me a proper title? I already have…”

She took the man's hand and placed it on her lower belly, intending to tell him she was pregnant.

But the man, who had been working away diligently, suddenly turned cold and menacing. After hastily finishing, he revealed his identity.

“Baby, there’s something I lied to you about. I’m not a tutor. I am Xiao Heqing, the emperor of the Great Yu. The empress of Great Yu cannot be a mere courtesan, but apart from the throne, I can give you everything in the world, including myself!”

Yu Cibao felt as though a bolt of lightning had struck her.

She was stunned beyond words.

Humiliated tears streamed down her face.

“You want me to be your concubine, a lowly consort who can never hold her head high, and our child will be beneath everyone else, trampled underfoot. Is that what you call loving me?”

Xiao Heqing was cold and merciless.

“You’re a mere courtesan. A consort’s rank is already more than you deserve. Don’t be ungrateful. So what if you can’t be empress? You’ll have all of my favor.”

Yu Cibao cried until her eyes were swollen. Her heart lay shattered, and she looked at the man with anguish and disbelief.

Xiao Heqing, I don’t want your love anymore. I don’t care about being empress, either.

Let’s say this was nothing more than a brief affair.

Let us part ways and never meet again.

That night, she died in a raging fire.

The lofty emperor Xiao Heqing stared at the prescription for pregnancy-supporting medicine, his whole body trembling.

She was… pregnant?

She had died with their child. Was this her way of punishing him?

“Baby, I’m sorry. I was wrong. You can punish me however you want, just please come back, all right?”

No one could have imagined that the exalted emperor would lose all control over a courtesan and go mad for her.