At a Palace Banquet, the Regent’s Princess Consort Couldn’t Hold Back a Retch, Then Leaped up and Kicked the Regent Flying

The winter wind was bitterly cold. In a dilapidated thatched hut, two small, skinny children knelt on the ground in their thin clothes, keeping watch over a woman lying unconscious before them. She seemed to have stopped breathing, and her body was haphazardly covered with...