Tears in the Pepper Chamber of the Han Palace

With Empress Min, the Han dynasty was revived. This was the fate she was born to fulfill. Cool and proud, yet kindhearted and melancholy, she suffered from a heart condition. Still, she had to do everything in her power to raise the heir. For the sake of sisterly love, she gave up her freedom and entered the Han palace. For the sake of sisterly love, she guarded the Jiaofang Palace and battled the Huo family. People said she could foresee every move and was like an emperor’s tutor. But no matter how brilliant she was, she could not escape his schemes, because she fell in love with him: Emperor Xuan, Liu Xun, a man as gentle as a spring breeze. He rose from a prince in distress to become emperor, outmaneuvered powerful ministers, and transformed the realm into that of a wise ruler. But he betrayed his first wife’s vow to share life and death, then betrayed the Huo woman’s deep affection. As for her, the woman he had consigned to the cold palace for ten years, even he could not promise that he would not let her down...