Huo Mingyan's face was grim.
She knew very well that this child could not be kept!
But...
The sun sank below the horizon, and the flickering candlelight swayed unsteadily.
Huo Mingyan's voice was extremely soft: "Cousin insists on going to war personally. If anything happens to him on the battlefield..."
She touched her still-flat abdomen, her beautiful eyes revealing the ambition unique to the Huo family: "What I carry in my womb could be the only heir."
She certainly admired her cousin deeply.
But compared to that fleeting love, the thought of someday ruling from behind the throne as Empress Dowager pleased her far more.
By then, not only would the tens of thousands of troops outside the border fall into the Huo family's hands, but she could also bring her grandmother and parents to the Capital to enjoy luxury.
Her younger brother, Huo Mingxu, could marry the most noble woman in the world.
The entire Great Zhou empire would belong to her Huo family!
