In the dead of night, Li Fuyin began to burn with fever, her face flushed a fierce red. She felt intensely miserable, struggling to wake up, yet trapped deep within a nightmare...
She was the twelfth princess, born to the late emperor, and Li Yuanzhao's twin sister. She had been born first, making Li Yuanzhao the thirteenth imperial prince. Her birth mother, Consort Wen, came from an unremarkable family and had died from a massive hemorrhage right after childbirth. She and Li Yuanzhao had been adopted by Noble Consort Xian, who heavily favored imperial princes. Even though the prince was physically weaker than the princess, Noble Consort Xian took care of everything for him with her own hands, while casting the princess aside to be raised by palace wet nurses.
Li Fuyin possessed a robust constitution; despite receiving no affection from Noble Consort Xian, she grew up healthy and strong until the age of thirteen—lively, cheerful, radiantly dazzling, and deeply cherished by the emperor...
Chapter 74