In her previous life, she went to great lengths to avoid him. In the end, she was disgraced and left with a broken family.
When they met again, everything had changed.
He said, “I've regretted it all these years. I should have forced you to marry me back then.”
She smiled then, her face bright with joy.
“And what about now?”
“You used your beauty as a woman to bring the entire court of Western Xia to heel. Blinded by desire, they fell into chaos, and the kingdom collapsed within three years. Your courage and political cunning are second to none. The people of Western Xia see you as a demon who brought ruin to their country, but you, Great Liang, and I are all proud of you... Come back with me and be my empress.”
But she no longer needed that. She was tired of it all.
She swallowed a cup of poisoned wine, and from then on, they were strangers at opposite ends of the world. May they meet again in freedom.
Reborn into another life, how would she write her story...?
