The Cui family precepts held that a daughter of the Cui clan married no merchant and became no concubine.
So when the edict naming me a Noble Consort arrived, the great aristocratic families all assumed that the new emperor meant to humiliate our house.
And yet I did not hesitate to break with my family and entered the palace in that small sedan chair.
Because I had already died twice.
This was the third life I had been given.