After My Concubine Ran Away with Our Child, the Great General Went Mad with Regret

Eight months pregnant, Yun Zhao heard Gu Shiyue say with her own ears, "Keep the child. Get rid of the mother."

She was his bedchamber maid, and he was the nation's great general. The tenderness he showed her on the frontier had been nothing more than wishful thinking on her part.

Yun Zhao's heart died completely. She was nothing but a tool for bearing children.

She secretly invested her savings and used the medical skills she had learned on the frontier to pave her way. On the day of Gu Shiyue's wedding, with help from her cousin, an imperial physician, she faked her death and escaped. Taking her child, she withdrew to Jiangnan, opened a clinic, and established herself as a physician.

Years later, Gu Shiyue, now the new emperor, searched the whole realm until he found her.

He pinned her against the wall, eyes red, and said, "Come back with me."

Yun Zhao calmly took his pulse. "A cold. Three doses of medicine. The fee is two liang."

"Don't worry. This time, I won't owe you anything." He pressed the imperial seal into her hand. "I, and this empire, are yours."