I have spent my entire life as a s*ave and a maidservant.

Past fifty, I never married, and I have no sons or daughters.

But I raised two princes and two princesses, and they respectfully call me “Aunt Qing.”

Before the late Noble Consort passed away, she held my hand and, once again, asked the question she had often asked throughout the thirty-five years we had known each other: “Are you happy now?”

I still shook my head. “No.”

Her once beautiful face had grown haggard from the illness and pain brought on by pregnancy and childbirth time and again, but when she heard my answer, she still gave a satisfied smile.

“It’s good that you’re unhappy. If you were happy, then I would be unhappy.”

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