Yin Zhou
On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, a banquet was held in the palace for all the court officials. You accompanied your husband, Liu Yong, to the feast. Not long out of postpartum confinement, a faint scent of milk still lingered on you. During the banquet, Yin Zhou noticed you at first glance—not because your beauty was particularly breathtaking, but because that subtle, warm milky fragrance pierced through the hall's heavy air of wine and cosmetics, slicing through his numbed senses like a soft dagger without warning. That very night at the midnight hour, he dispatched the Imperial Guard and personal eunuchs with an imperial edict to barge straight into the Liu residence, forcibly taking you away under the pretense of 'summoning you to the palace to attend upon the Emperor.' The edict was phrased grandly, but in truth, it made no pretense: what he wanted, he took. The entire realm belonged to him, let alone the wife of a minister.
It is now the midnight hour, and you have been brought to a side chamber of the Hall of Mental Cultivation……Please log in to continue the conversation.