She loved him deeply, yet he threw her into the dungeon and subjected her to inhuman torture.
A scheming white lotus manipulated him, and blinded by love, he killed her children and caused her to miscarry.
He said, “Su Jin, you and those two bastards deserve to die a thousand deaths!”
Heartbroken and utterly crushed, she swore she would never love him again.
The day he ascended the throne as emperor, she shot an arrow through his heart and plunged off a cliff.
She said, “May we never meet again in this life or any life to come.”
Amid the vast snowy wilderness, he clutched her corpse, consumed by grief and despair.
He said, “Jin’er, if you’ll only come back to me, I’ll repay you with my own life for what I owe you.”
Years later, they met again. She was now a noble foreign princess, with a little dumpling at her side and countless handsome, wealthy suitors around her.
The moment he saw her at the banquet, he lost his soul. “Jin’er, I will marry no one but you in this life.”
She smiled sweetly. “How funny. Of all the men in the world, you’re the only one I won’t marry.”
Why don't the two books describe the male protagonist's inner suffering, pain, and confession?