As You Wish

Their love was as deep as the sea, yet they could only gaze across its waters. Looking back on the rest of their lives, neither would know another moment of happiness.

Xu Jiang was the legitimate eldest princess of Daqi, and later became the Phoenix Emperor.

Fu Zhi'an was the princess's consort, and later became the General of Dingbei.

In the twenty-eighth year of Dazhi, the crown prince died and the emperor passed away.

With the power of the Zheng family and the late emperor's decree, the empress demoted Prince Rui and put the legitimate princess Xu Jiang on the throne.

After that, she made a son of the Zheng family her royal consort, appointed Fu Zhi'an as a general, and sent him to guard Dingbei.

The love between the emperor and the general was buried in dust. The Phoenix Emperor ruled for sixteen years, suffered frequent heart attacks, and showed signs of an early death. She longed for her old friend but could not see him again. She died in the sixteenth year of Chengde, at just thirty-one. After her death, her remains were not buried in the imperial mausoleum, but in the princesses' mausoleum.

The general followed her final decree, supported the Phoenix Emperor's legitimate son in taking the throne, and served as regent alongside the Grand Empress Dowager for two years before returning power to the emperor. He later resigned and vanished into the world, leaving no trace. No one knows where his remains lie.

Their love had endured for so long, yet in life and death, they would never meet again.

They did not share a bed in life, nor a grave in death.

Fortunately, the nation was peaceful and prosperous, and time could gradually ease the sorrow of the emperor and the general.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.