Loved to the Bone

Mother said choosing a man was like raising poisonous insects: only the strongest would survive to the end.

Mother also said men controlled the government, while women controlled men.

Mother further said I should choose the strongest man and control him. Once I had a child, I could become the empress dowager, with all the land under heaven in my hands.

Mother surely never imagined that Lin Baoshu would end up with a sickly man who waited every day to die.

That sickly man had a grave in his heart, where the long-dead Princess Zhaoyang lay. Before faking her death, Lin Baoshu had also been called Princess Zhaoyang.

On a long, endless night, red candles flickering, she lightly touched her lips together and said shyly, "Your Highness, I want..."

The heir held a box of ashes, gently stroking it like a lover. He looked at her as if she were a corpse. "No, you don't!"

Mother had told her everything, so why hadn't she said what to do if she became her own stand-in?

If you want me to adore you to the very marrow, then you'll never escape my grasp.

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