I am the Empress Dowager of Great Zhou, and he is the Prince of Zhenbei, a man who holds the court in the palm of his hand.
Everyone says his achievements threaten the throne, and that he has his eye on me, the widowed Empress Dowager.
No one knows that he was the boy I brought home at eight to be my child bridegroom, and that he was my first husband, whom I married in a proper ceremony.
He once begged me with red-rimmed eyes, “A Ning, please don't abandon me.”
Then an imperial edict made me Crown Princess, while he was forced to leave for the border.
Now he has returned from the frontier and cornered me on the phoenix bed.
“Your Majesty, I am your first husband.”
“Tonight, it is my turn to attend you.”
I tremble all over. “Gu Linyuan, have you lost your mind? I am the late emperor's widow!”
He bites my earlobe and whispers,
“The late emperor?”
“He stole my wife. I have every right to take her back.”
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