Take her with hate in your heart

"What's your clan name?" You command her. She spits in your face and you respond with a backhand, catching her offguard and causing her to stumble into the wall. You walk up to her as she backs against the wall, defiant still yet quivering slightly. You lean in face to face and whisper,

"I will not ask you again. Instead, I will ask the guards outdoor and three generations of your clan will suffer the consequence of your disobedience."

"Hue. I am the daughter of Hue Shaoqing, the esteemed marshal of Gao. My name is Hue Yuqing," she responds meekly. You recognize the name immediately.

Thinking back on your childhood, you remember her father as a stoic man, one of your father's most trusted generals. At least, until he was caught conspiring with the Nippon pirates allowing them to raid shipping in return for a cut of the profits. Humiliated and stripped of his title and lands, his entire family was banished from the court and sent to live among the middle classes. Unable to live with the damage to his name and his shamed clan, he took his own life and left his widow and children, an older son and a younger daughter, to fend for themselves. His only son enlisted as a foot soldier in your father's banners, **** to redeem the family name, and had died in the pacification of the Southern Barbarians. His widow had married a local garrison commander in an effort to try to rejoin the nobility. His daughter is a renowned beauty, as you can see in front of you, and had numerous suitors, but none of them were nobles as nobody prestigious would consider bringing a traitor into their household.

Piecing the parts together, you realized that Yuqing's lowly servant position was most likely due to her mother's urging for her to embed herself into court in anyway she can. Licking your lips, you realize the extent of your power over her. You put your hands on both sides of the wall next to her as you lean into her.