Word spread far and wide that Lu Jinshi was cursed with a fate that brought misfortune and death to any man who married her. By the time she was nearly twenty, no one dared to take her as a wife.

After being mocked as an “old maid” who would never marry, Lu Jinshi came up with a bold idea. She would pick a handsome young scholar from the academy her family ran, use him only to conceive a child, and raise the baby entirely on her own — with the father completely out of the picture.

She chose Rong Yi, a young scholar of peerless, breathtaking beauty. She got exactly what she wanted: they shared a brief, passionate affair, and she later gave birth to a son.

Before Lu Jinshi had time to cut all ties with the man who had served only as a s*erm donor, news arrived that her grandfather was critically ill. She had to return to Chang’an immediately to be with him and see him off on his final journey as he was the Marquis of Yongxing.

At the same time, Rong Yi told her that one of his own elders didn’t have long to live either, and he too had to rush back to Chang’an to bid farewell.

And so, Lu Jinshi and Rong Yi traveled to Chang’an together.

Shortly after arriving, once she had rested and settled in, Rong Yi said he would take her to meet his parents the very next day and formally give her a proper status in his family.

Lu Jinshi was just wondering whether she should even grant him any place in her life at all — when she heard exactly what kind of “status” he had in mind: he wanted her to be his concubine…

Rong Yi said: “Jinshi, my father has already arranged another marriage for me. I can only take you as a concubine. But considering you’ve already borne my eldest son, I can promise you the position of a secondary wife — that is the best I can offer…”

Lu Jinshi didn’t even let him finish speaking. She ordered her servants to throw him out of the house at once.

This is absolutely ridiculous and backwards! I only used you to get a child and planned to cut you out entirely — and now you dare ask me to be your concubine?

Everything changed later, at the Empress Dowager’s birthday banquet…

There, Lu Jinshi laid eyes on the Seventh Prince — the man her younger half-sister had praised endlessly, claiming he was the most perfect being in all of heaven and earth.

In that moment, she was stunned into realization: the man she had chosen just to father her child… was none other than a prince of the imperial family!

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