Shen Shiji once saved my life, pulling me from a pile of corpses.
In the years before I was recognized by the palace and returned to my royal roots, he taught me to read and practice martial arts, treating me with the utmost tenderness.
That was until I killed the woman he had loved for years.
To avenge her, Shen Shiji became my Prince Consort.
He spent years plotting to turn everyone against me, stripping me of my allies and family. After subjecting me to every imaginable torment, he threw me back into that same pile of corpses.
Shen Shiji told me his greatest regret was saving me all those years ago.
And so, having been reborn, I scrambled out of that pile of corpses on my own, wasting no time.
Later, I heard that it rained heavily that day.
The usually aloof Young Marquis Shen ignored the filth and the mud, kneeling in the pile of corpses and digging until his hands were bloody and raw.
All just to find a Little Beggar.
