Bound by Pain, Freed by Vengeance Chapter 23

It was not Prince Henry who pursued Dora, but Dora who took the initiative to seduce him and threatened the amorous but responsible Prince Henry with his unborn child (Chris) to cancel his engagement with Gu Pin and marry her.

Dora did this not because she liked Henry, nor because she wanted to marry into the royal family, nor because she was jealous of Gu Pin. On the contrary, she actually loved Gu Pin deeply. Her thinking was exactly the same as her son Chris. She was inferior to her status and dared not express her feelings, so she came up with the idea that "if I were higher in status than Gu Pin, then they would definitely be able to be together."

Unexpectedly, Henry lost his status as crown prince because of marrying her and was demoted to Grand Duke, while she became Grand Duchess. Gu Pin married the new crown prince and was still the future queen. There was always a huge difference in status between them.

Mentally ill people have broad ideas, so Dora embarked on a new path of instigating her husband to rebel and put it into action.

During the rebellion, Dora heard the news that the queen was pregnant. She was jealous of the emperor and secretly seduced the son of the Gu family branch. She gave birth to a child, Andre, who she thought could be regarded as the "fruit of love" between her and Gu Pin.