The General’s Maid

My husband returned victorious from the northern battlefield.

The man everyone called the untouchable, icy hero lost all his composure in front of the entire crowd. He pulled my personal maid into a desperate, crushing embrace.

“You are alive! Do you have any idea how much I missed you?”

The moment he saw the infant in her arms, his eyes turned bloodshot. Right then and there, he vowed to petition the Emperor to take my maid as his first, legitimate wife.

Before I could even utter a word to