Mi Tian Zhen

Chapter 0 I was the concubine brought into the household to bring Song Wendu good fortune when he was critically ill. For the two years he lay unconscious, I burned incense and prayed, sought out doctors and medicines, and kept watch by his bed every day, tending to him with the utmost care. Everyone in the estate said I was virtuous and gentle, devoted with all my heart. They said Lord Song was a man of noble character who always repaid a debt, and once he woke, he would surely raise me to the position of lawful wife. But I, by nature, am greedy for money and fond of beauty, and I harbor no grand ambitions. All I wanted was to save up three thousand taels of silver, then find some excuse to request permission to leave the estate. And now, I was only six hundred taels short. Seeing that the man on the bed could move nothing on his entire body except his eyeballs, I sighed and considerately fed him another spoonful of medicine. I had just withdrawn my hand when a few pale, trembling fingers suddenly clamped around my wrist in a death grip. The man slowly opened his eyes, forcing out a breathy rasp from between clenched teeth: “You poisonous woman-!” “For half a month… you have forced twenty bowls of knockout drugs down my throat!!!”