The Chancellor’s biological daughter, missing for fifteen years, had returned. Father wiped away tears while Mother held her and wept inconsolably. But the only person she looked at was me. In a soft, timid voice, she said, “I’m home now. It’s time for you to give up your title as the legitimate daughter, little sister, isn’t it?”
She thought I was a concubine-born daughter who had usurped her place as the legitimate one. But after she said those words, every member of the family looked terrified.
