After Xie Yuying bore the crown prince his first son, secret palace law required the mother to die, and Li Yuancheng strangled her so his first love could raise the child.
She woke on the day her pregnancy was confirmed, seeing the same glad performance at her bedside that once made her the seventh woman to die for an heir.
This time she will let Xu Liuyi, the Tribute Woman he asked for from Chen, bear the first son, and make him taste having nothing.
Can a reborn consort picked for a powerless Xie house and a fertile line still nestle meekly beside the man who already forgot her?
