The steward's son rode my coattails to success and became the youngest chancellor. But this kept man killed me for the cousin he doted on, a maidservant. “If I can't be with my cousin, what's the point of having power over the whole court?” He had completely forgotten how he once knelt and begged me to get him a position in the cabinet. Reborn, I watched him help his beloved cousin climb into the imperial carriage bestowed upon me before I could. I snatched the coachman's whip and lashed the two shameless lovers. “You two think you're entitled to take what belongs to me?”