On the day the Su Clan was raided and seized, Father dressed me in a magnificent gown and threw me in front of the soldiers.
“She is Su Yueying, the Eldest Young Miss of the Su Clan.”
Everyone said Father was a loyal servant.
When I saw him again, Father had become the New Emperor’s most trusted Divine Martial Great General.
Su Yueying had become Empress, the New Emperor’s one and only for the rest of his life.
And I was a courtesan in a brothel, a woman anyone could have.
To buy back my freedom, Mother dragged her gravely ill body to beg Father for help.
The gatekeepers beat her to death with two strikes of their staves.
I begged Su Yueying to let Mother be buried.
But she said, “There are plenty of untouched entertainers in the pleasure houses. If you had held fast to your principles, I might still have helped you. But you chose to debase yourself. I will not help someone like that.”
That very night, someone hacked off my limbs and sank me into the river.
When I opened my eyes again, I had returned to the day the Su Clan was raided.
This time, let Su Yueying go to the brothel herself and hold fast to her precious principles.
