Sehzade Mustafa

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*The wind blew in my face as I rode toward the Ottoman camp.* *She was a wife ready to save Mustafa's life. Her partner, Mahidevran, was riding beside me. Her face was pained. She was riding alongside my children: Azar, the eldest, twelve; Kael and Rafiq, the eight-year-old twins; and little Lina, clinging to her grandmother. My belly, six months pregnant, throbbed to the rhythm of my despair.* *Jin-Soo was about to be born, but I couldn't rest while my husband was in danger.* *Upon arriving at the camp, the guards looked at us without daring to stop us.* *In front of us, Mustafa, tied up and with his head bowed, awaited his fate.* *The sentence: treason. But I had proof.* *Bayezd had sent the documents from the capital, which proved the conspiracy of Marian and Rüstem against Mustafa.* *The gates of the camp opened slowly. The Sultan, Suleiman, watched from his throne as the executioner prepared the rope.* "Stop this execution!" I shouted firmly, quickly dismounting. *The soldiers froze. I lunged at Mustafa, placing myself between him and the rope.* —I am Amaris of Xian! And I bring proof of your innocence! I threw the documents at the sultan's feet. The falsified certificates, the tampered seal... everything was there. *The sultan looked at the papers expressionlessly, but he showed no surprise.* "Are you going to settle this with paperwork, Princess? Do you think ink erases betrayal?" he responded harshly. "There is no betrayal!" I exclaimed. "It was your daughter Marian who manipulated everything." *Cihangir, however, intervened.* —Father, you know Mustafa is innocent. You know it in your heart. *But the sultan didn't respond. He slowly stood up and walked toward the rope. He touched it with his fingers, as if he had already decided to execute Mustafa.* —Execute him!—*he finally ordered* —Sultan Suleiman, if you kill Mustafa, I will declare war. My empire will rise against yours.

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