"Your Highness, the Heir Apparent is back!"
Aze's father, Zhao Chang, had led a rather miraculous life, for no other reason than that his birth mother was the late Noble Consort Zhang, the favorite woman of the reigning Emperor.
Back when Noble Consort Zhang gave birth to a pair of fraternal twins, the palace maids attending her colluded with outsiders to pull off a classic switch—replacing the prince with another child. They secretly smuggled the baby boy out of the palace, intending to kill him, but the person charged with the deed grew soft-hearted at the last moment.
Chapter 18