Our Rabbit Clan has always been timid and kind. We lived hidden away in the mountains, keeping to ourselves. After the emperor was injured and became unable to have children, the empress heard that our clan possessed a miraculous fertility medicine. She sent people to steal it, then set fire to the mountain and slaughtered my entire clan. I escaped the massacre because I had wandered off to play, and witnessed her wickedness with my own eyes. She laughed cruelly. “Once you’re all dead, there’ll be no more fertility medicine in the world. Only I will be able to give birth to the emperor’s one and only son!” But what if her child wasn’t the only one? I infiltrated the palace’s selection of consorts and became the emperor’s favorite. On the day I gave birth, the empress arrived with a dead baby, intending to switch it with mine. But the sight before her left her dumbfounded. “One, two, three… eight babies?”
