chapter 3
I looked up and saw Chu Heng, dressed in the Crown Prince’s court attire, walking toward me, surrounded by a crowd.
The murmurs behind me immediately vanished.
Chu Heng and I grew up together as childhood companions.
Our marriage was arranged before we were even born.
Whenever someone spoke ill of me, he was always the first to defend me.
Whenever he made a mistake and was punished, I was always the first to plead for him.
Until now, no one ever doubted that I was Chu Heng’s beloved.
The sole candidate to be Crown Princess.
But today, on my sixteenth birthday, he brought another girl with him.
Liu Ruo was pale and slender, clinging to his side like a frightened bird.
Chu Heng had knelt all night, showing no sign of fatigue. Instead, he wore a faint smile and whispered something intimately in her ear.
She looked at me, her expression suddenly panicked and flustered, then strode forward in a few large steps.
With a thud, she knelt before me.