Child Protagonist
The Price of a Princess
There is a palace rule in the Great Sheng Dynasty: regardless of rank or status, whoever gives birth to a child must raise that child.
Mother was the most insignificant Cairen in the harem.
Ever since I was born, I lived with her in the neglected Chengze Hall.
When I was eight, the Imperial Physician diagnosed Mother with a severe illness and said she did not have long to live.
That day, Mother jumped into the Taiye Pond and saved the drowning Third Prince.
She saved the Third Prince’s life, but lost her own in the waters of Taiye Pond.
Rumors spread throughout the palace. Everyone said, “The Third Prince stepped on Cui Cairen’s head, pushing her underwater so he could climb ashore.”
They fanned the flames, but I knew in my heart that Mother did it on purpose.
She used her own life to ensure that, after her death, I could be taken in by the Third Prince’s birth mother, Consort Qi.
Mother was so foolish.
She thought she had paved a path for me.
She forgot.
A child without a mother leads a bitter life.
