Chapter 1 Prologue
Wu yuan POV
How do you lose something you never had?
I was born without love. The woman who brought me into this world, whom I call mother, had been a lowly serving maid who found her way into the Marquess’ bed. One night in his bed, she became a lady. As a greedy woman by nature, my mother continues to scheme for higher status by going as far as poisoning me.
How do you feel when the person who brought you into this world poisons you to gain pity?
I was seven when my mother sprinkled white powder into my porridge for breakfast. Like an experiment, she started with little doses, seeing how much my body takes. Then, she started increasing the potion of dosage. In the beginning, there had been stomach pains, and the more I ate her porridge, the sicker I became until am bedridden for days. By the time I turned ten, my mother had realized my body had grown accustomed to the amount of dose, so she opted to up the dosage of the poison. I had found out she needed me forever frail and weak to gain pity from the household-my father. No one cared enough to find the source of my illness. Instead, they all stayed away from me, not wanting to catch the disease they claimed I had.
My mother is the disease I have!
My mother stopped poisoning me when she finally got what she wanted, which was a son. With a son, she finally got the status she wanted which was the seventh concubine of Marquess Kim. At seventeen, I became a ghost that no one saw but found peace reading each day in the small courtyard assigned to me. Everyone had forgotten my existence while my mother was busy protecting her son. They were so focused on the new baby boy, to realize that I was no longer sick.
