After the Dowager Princess Conceived

In the nineteenth year of the Tailiang era, two strange events set the capital abuzz.

First, the Grand Princess, who had been widowed for three years, suddenly became pregnant.

Second, her husband, the Great Liang's foremost God of War, Huo Qiming, who had supposedly died in battle, returned to the capital completely unharmed and in grand style.

The emperor was beside himself with worry. To save face for them both, he personally issued an edict granting them a divorce, then posted a royal proclamation: any man willing to come forward and acknowledge the child as his would be pardoned for everything else.

But things didn't go as planned. The more time passed, the more confusing the matter became.

Because more than one man came forward to claim the child.

Zhang Yuanqing, the upright and impartial Vice Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, a man who was cold and free of worldly desires, had no idea what had suddenly gotten into him.

Song Ling, the current chief minister, elegant and handsome, powerful and shrewd, also disregarded his status and came to claim the child.

Emperor Liang, who doted on his daughter without limit, was so anxious that he lost his temper with her for the first time: