Chapter 1 — The Prince Regent's Gossip Has Escaped

Tieu Hanh stood high and coldly looked down, thinking that just one bowl of poison could cut off all my escape routes, forcing me to create an exterior where no light could be seen for the rest of my life.

"Drink this bowl of abortion medicine, this king will spare your father's life."

I raised my head and drank. From beginning to end, even my eyelashes didn't tremble once. Then just calmly leave a sentence.

“We will not see each other again in this life.”

Tieu Hanh thinks I'm being soft and tight. It wasn't until he investigated the truth that he discovered... Not only was I never pregnant in the first place. And even the antidote to that bowl of poison, I had already taken it long ago. I used a child that didn't exist... in exchange for my father's life. Exchange for a completely new message clearance. In exchange for the opportunity to completely disappear from the capital, disappear into the smoke and rain of Jiangnan.

"Drink this bowl of abortion medicine, this king will spare your father's life."

Tieu Hanh's voice was cold. He placed the bowl of thick black medicine heavily on the pear flower wooden table, a few drops of bitter medicinal liquid splashed out. I looked at that bowl of medicine, not even my eyelids blinked once more. I raised my hand to pick up the bowl of medicine, without even the slightest hesitation, I raised my head and drank it all. The sound of swallowing sounded especially clearly in the deathly quiet heavenly courtyard. Tieu Hanh immediately clasped his hands behind his back, his knuckles turned white. He stared at my face that was so calm that in his eyes it was almost evil, and finally a crack appeared on my face that was hard to see.

"You still refuse to say a word asking for forgiveness?"

“Does begging help?”

I put down the empty bowl, used my sleeve to wipe away the medicine stains at the corner of my lips, my eyes extremely alert.

“The king said the golden words, saying that as long as he took the medicine, he would spare my father's life.

"If I cry and get involved, it will delay time. What should I do if the Prince changes his mind?"

“Tham Quy Van, that is also her flesh and blood!”

Tieu Hanh suddenly took a step closer, gritting his teeth.

“It's also ridiculous for the king to say that.

“The one who forced me to take medicine was a human.

"Now that I've drank it, people still think I'm heartless."

“You followed this king for three years, just to protect your corrupt and illegal father. Could you even kill your own son without blinking an eye?”

“The Prince forced me to drink it, isn't that so?”

I did not give in and directly met his gaze.

“What's more, a sinful daughter like me who can't see the light gives birth to the second son of the Regent, how dare the Prince accept it? Does the Ta family dare to tolerate it?”

Ta Van Thu, standing next to him, heard that and finally stepped out from the darkness. She wore a red brocade dress with a red Shu brocade and a nine-tailed phoenix tree on her head, symbolizing her future royal status.

“Miss Shen is truly a sensible person.”

Ta Van Thu smiled slightly.

“If you give birth to this child, the marriage between the Ta family and the Royal Palace will become a joke.

"Our Ta Thi's reputation has been unbearable for hundreds of years and cannot bear even a single stain."

“So today, Miss Ta has condescended to come to this dilapidated hospital, just to see with her own eyes how I miscarried. pregnant?”

The corners of my lips curled up into a sarcastic smile.

“That's right.”

Ta Van Thu replied very calmly, without even a hint of fake embarrassment.

“The engagement between me and the Royal Family is His Majesty's four-marriage decree, a political alliance between the Ta clan and the royalist faction.

"The prince may not love me, but this position of the princess can only be mine."

"The deputy minister's child in your belly is the thorn between the Ta family and the Royal Palace."

“Miss Ta is really straightforward.”

I hugged my lower abdomen, which was dull in pain, and my face gradually turned pale, but my spine remained straight.

"For the sake of the family, even an unborn child refuses to let go. Don't you think you're too cruel?"

"Merciless?"