Mother's Poison & The Sacrifice

***How can you lose something you never have? ***

**I****was born without love. My mother had been a lowely tea maid who schemed her way into Marquis bed. Through one union she had me and became a lady maid. A greedy women by nature, my mother continues to scheme for higher status. I was simply the collateral to her schemes. **

***When your own mother poisons you to gain pity from others, how should you feel? ***

**I was seven when my mother sprinkled white powder into my morning porridge. Like an experiment, she started with small dosages, testing to see the limits of my small body. In the beginning, there had only been stomach pains. The more I ate her porridge, the sicker I would get, until I'm bedridden for days. By the time I was ten,my mother upped the dose of the poison because she realized my body had grown accustom to it. **

She needed me forever frail and weak in order to gain pity from the household - from my father.

**No one cared enough to find the source to my illness. Instead, everyone stayed further away - not wanting to catch  the disease they believed I have. **

**My mother is the disease I have. **

**Mother stopped poisoning me when she finally had what she wanted - a son. With a son, she finally got the status as the fifth concubine of Marquis Li. At the fifteen, I found peace. Everyone has forgotten my existence, while my mother was too busy protecting her son to remember me. Everyone else focus were on the new baby boy to realize that I no longer sick. **

**I became a ghost that no one sees. **

But it no longer matters as I continue to live in my small courtyard, reading to pass the each day peacefully.

**The days of peace soon ended when a maid came into my room and told me the Marquis wanted to see me. For sixteen years, I have seen my supposed father only a handful of times. Because I was always sick, mother does not allowed me anywhere public. Because I wasn't favoured, the Marquis never cared to know if I was well. So to be called suddenly, instinct told me that it will not end well. The feeling intensified when I came into the main hall to see everyone there - the Marquis, his main wife, all of his concubines, grandmother, and my half brothers and sisters. My mother was holding my baby brother with a dotting smile to spare me a glance. **

**My instinct was proven correct when the indifferent man ordered me to get ready for marriage. I was the youngest daughter and by far, the plainest of the Marquis infamous beautiful daughters. My oldest half sister was the most beautiful and was not married yet. **

Why was I, the youngest, being married off?

**I noticed the delighted smiles on my half - sisters faces. When the Marquis told me my future husband was Duke Haijin, I realized why. **

**Duke Haijin is also known as Prince Jian of Wu Xi. He is the most favoured grandson of the Great Emperor Wu Huizhong, the ruler of the most powerful nation Wu Xi. At Twenty three years old, the man have commands over 500,000 soldiers and 200,000 forces he calls " BLACK MASK " The Title Duke Haijin had been bestowed to him five years ago with Intention for him to help the young Emperor Pizhi stabilise the country of Milong. **

**It was no secret that Prince Jian had over 2 dozen concubines with no official wife. They say he use women like paper - used once before he discards them like trash. The Marquis had said I was lucky. He ensured me that I was going to be married as the official wife of Prince Jian. I didn't know his true intentions, but I understand I was the sacrifice. **

**When everything was said and done, I was dismissed back to my room. **

**There was no way for me to escape. **

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