The Han army captured Luoyang. My husband, His Majesty himself, knelt at the rebels’ feet, trembling like a lamb waiting for slaughter.
“The Empress is in Jiaofang Hall. Please, don’t kill me…”
I had been married to him for five years and had given birth to our daughter, Princess Heqing.
Yet at the moment of crisis, he offered me up without the slightest hesitation.