Romance

The Consort My Family Wanted Dead

by Perfect Timing

I'd barely been named Imperial Consort when my father struck the petition drum to demand justice and exposed me as no longer being a maiden.The Emperor was furious. I was stripped of my consort robes, brutally tortured, and driven from the palace.My mother was heartbroken. Determined to prove my innocence, she gathered every elder in our family.But the moment they arrived, she dropped to her knees in front of me and begged again and again, her face full of fear."Elara, I swear I'll keep quiet. I'll never tell anyone about you and the coachman!""Please stop using your hex beetles to torture me. I can't take it anymore!"I tried desperately to explain that I'd done nothing, but my father kicked me to the ground and found swarms of hex beetles on me."The proof is right here and you're still lying? You're shameless and vicious. I have no daughter like you!"With the elders' backing, my parents disowned me and threw me out of the house.When I had nowhere left to go, my brother took me to the frontier.Enemy soldiers ambushed him. I used my own body as his shield and took dozens of sword strokes, holding on until reinforcements arrived.But the first thing he did when help came was pull out letters proving I'd committed treason and shout at me."I took her in out of kindness, and she conspired with the enemy to kill me. When I survived, she even tried to curse me with her beetles..."I was punished under military law and hacked to pieces on the spot.Even as I died, I couldn't understand why my own family would frame me.When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the day my father exposed me.

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