I Am Not Your Peony - Prologue
On the day the Eastern Palace held its banquet to choose a Crown Princess, the young ladies stood on one side of a screen.
Afraid the Crown Prince might mistake her for someone else, my elder sister had privately told him she would wear a peony in her hair.
I knew nothing of their arrangement. That day, I wore a tree peony.
What she feared came to pass.
Two beauties, the Qiao sisters stood side by side. The Crown Prince mistook my tree peony for her peony.
He passed over all the other young ladies and placed the jade tablet that marked his choice in my hands.
My sister never married.
In the latter half of his life, Xie Yichen had no choice but to make me Empress to preserve the honor of my family.
Until the morning he died.
Clutching a sprig of dried peony blossoms, he admonished me.
“Your sister and I have accommodated you all our lives. If there is a next life… don’t resort to such underhanded schemes again.”
I felt as if lightning had struck me.
When I opened my eyes again, it was the day of the banquet. My mother was insisting on tucking a gorgeous tree peony into my hair.
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