The Crown Prince Is My Mom - Chapter 1

Chapter 1

My mother was the most beautiful woman in the world. She married young, and she married well. Unfortunately, my father died early. Stricken with grief, my mother took me away from the capital, that land of heartbreak.

Ten years later, I had reached the age to discuss marriage, so she brought me back to the capital and asked my maternal grandmother to help arrange a good match for me.

But none of us could have imagined that my mother would be married off before I was.

That day, she personally went to Maqian Street to buy my favorite pastries. As fate would have it, the emperor, who was out incognito among the people, fell in love with her at first sight. He clung to her shamelessly, then spent a fortune buying every pastry on the entire street, successfully winning me over.

The emperor was gentle and refined, with an extraordinary bearing. On top of that, he and my mother had plenty in common when it came to raising a child alone. In less than three months, my mother agreed to his courtship.

But only when the marriage talks began did we learn that he was the Son of Heaven himself.

My mother’s expression changed on the spot. She dug my father’s dust-covered memorial tablet out from a corner and declared with unshakable resolve that she would remain faithful to her late husband for the rest of her life.

I immediately put down the pastry in my hand, threw myself on the floor, and made a scene. Clinging to my mother’s leg, I wailed, “Mother! How am I supposed to live without you? Take me with you!”

The emperor was completely dumbfounded. He could not understand why I had been sweetly calling him “New Dad” yesterday, only to call him “Dog Dad” today.

But he had never considered that if my mother married him, the rest of her life would be locked away inside that bottomless Forbidden City.

Our family had always thought he was just some ordinary rich old fool. Only last night, my mother had been counting on her fingers, calculating how many gold coins he might drop for me after he died and whether it would be enough to make up eight full loads of dowry. But if my new father was the emperor, it was not as if he could drop a throne for me, was it?

Everyone under heaven knew that the First Empress had died young, leaving behind only the Crown Prince. No matter how outstanding the other imperial princes were, not a single one could shake the Crown Prince’s position.

I did not want to spend the rest of my life unable to see my mother. I did not want her to never again see the scenery beyond the Forbidden City. No matter how many rare treasures flowed into my room like water, I refused to budge.

After gold and silver failed to knock open our door, the Chancellor came next to invite us with every courtesy. Relatives and friends took turns persuading us. Even the most unruly Crown Prince was dragged over by the emperor and made to obediently call my mother “Aunt Rong.”

All of the capital was saying that the emperor loved my mother beyond measure. But only I knew that my mother’s complexion grew worse by the day, and her expression grew sadder and sadder.

That day, she told me to go play at my uncle’s house. By the time I came back, I learned that the emperor had forcibly taken her into the palace, and that very same day, she was made Noble Consort.

I hated him so much I nearly ground my teeth to pieces.