Born to Be the Phoenix

A palace maid drugged the Crown Prince’s wine, and I discovered it. To protect the Crown Prince’s future, I switched the cups. The palace maid and a guard were caught in the act. In her anger, the Empress sentenced them both to death. When the Crown Prince found out, his face showed only disgust. “A shameless, lowly wretch. She deserved to die.” But after he ascended the throne, he gave me-pregnant as I was-to a eunuch servant, letting him ab*se me until I died. Only then did I learn that the palace maid who had died was the woman he had kept hidden in the depths of his heart all along. When I opened my eyes again, I was back at the banquet, watching coldly as the palace maid tampered with the wine.