Summary
The day I got my first period happened to be the Empress’s birthday banquet.
I was panicking when the Crown Prince passed by and handed me his cloak to hide my stained skirt.
Neither of us expected the Empress to recognize it.
She smiled knowingly. “I have long heard that the Crown Prince has someone he fancies. Today, I shall add one joy to another and grant you to him as his principal wife.”
In my previous life, I entered the Eastern Palace as a bewildered young bride. Qin Yu and I spent many harmonious years together—until, on his deathbed, he held my hand and said with bleak regret, “What I regret most in this life is meddling that day.”
Only then did I learn that the woman he had always loved was my elder sister, and that he had helped me solely because of her.
Reborn before the Empress’s birthday banquet, I caught my sister’s hand and whispered, “My period is about to start, so I shouldn’t go out. Go to the banquet in my place.”