My father is the Eight Worthy Prince, famed for his military exploits, and my mother is the daughter of a Grand Preceptor whose influence reaches across the court. But my two older brothers let an adopted beggar impersonate me just to curry favor with him. At my investiture banquet, they brought Shen Shibai in to stop me. Shen Shibai sneered, “A wretch with no parents to raise him thinks he deserves a title?” In my previous life, I was afraid my brothers would despise me, so I became timid and spineless. But now I’ve been reborn. As I looked at Shen Shibai, full of himself, and my brothers, so sure of victory, I kicked him flying. “A beggar like you thinks you can stand in my way?”
