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My mother, a prostitute, sacrificed her own flesh and blood to finance my father's studies and his imperial examinations.
Five years later, when my father successfully passed the exam and was betrothed to a princess by the emperor, he defied the royal match in the Hall of Golden Thrones, preferring instead to marry my mother in a grand ceremony with a ten-mile-long red wedding procession.
The princess was displeased.
Three days later, my mother was found disheveled and abused, lifeless in an alley.
Half a year later, the princess married my father as she had wished.
Little did she know that this was merely the beginning of her misfortunes.