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For twelve years, I disguised myself as a man and sat on the throne. Not a single official in the court discovered I was a woman. Yet my arch‑nemesis, Elias Lockwood. ,whom I had suppressed for twelve long years,marched into the capital with two hundred thousand troops. He burst into the Hall of Supreme Harmony with his sword, the blade pressed against my neck, grinning like a King Yama. "Your Majesty,"he purred, "I've come to send you to your death." I glanced down at my slightly rounded belly and spoke slowly, "I'm with child. And the baby… is yours." His sword clattered to the floor on the spot.