Chapter 1
A night so dark that not even five fingers could be seen.
I curled up on the bed, helplessly enduring it all.
The man who lay with me was my Elder Sister’s Fiancé.
Xie Heng, the General.
Though it was such an act, his eyes were cold and joyless, as if he were merely fulfilling a duty.
The night was like spilled ink.
It wrapped me in shame and despair.
…
My mother was a maid in the Marquis Mansion.
Years ago, the Marquis mistook her for his wife after drinking too much. After that night, I was conceived.
But the Lady said that the Marquis Mansion could only have one young lady.
So I became my Elder Sister’s maid.
No one knew that I, this lowly maid, was also the Marquis Zhou Wencang’s daughter.
But half a month ago, the Marquis Mansion suddenly made my identity public.
And then told me something absurd.
My Elder Sister was frail and might not be able to bear children in the future.
But the marriage alliance between the Marquis Mansion and the General’s Mansion was of great importance, and there had to be a child to maintain it.
So I, a maid who was never acknowledged but carried the Marquis’s blood, became their tool for bearing children.