The Emperor and Empress Run Wild

[Arrogant empress × devoted emperor | She flees, he pursues | The emperor's long road to regret, with no turning back]

Ye Qingkuang is just as her name suggests: wild and unrestrained all her life.

Tricked into entering the palace as empress?

She curls her red lips and casually tosses the imperial seal into the lotus pond. She can't even be bothered to remember the emperor's face.

Harem rivalries? Political schemes at court?

She finds them all too noisy. Better to ride out of the palace and get drunk beneath the vast skies.

The Emperor Shenzhao plots at every turn and calculates every heart, but he never reckons that she will dismiss all his devotion and the empire he offers her.

He gives her an empress's crown and robes. She scoffs.

He promises her a harem with no other consorts. She says the palace is too small to contain her sky.

“I offer you the whole realm as my bride-price. Give me one honest glance in return.”

“Your realm?” She knocks his crown tassels aside with her long sword and laughs freely. “I'd rather have a cup of wine in the martial world.”

Later, the palace gates are thrown wide for her.

She leaves without looking back, heading toward a freer, wider world.

All she leaves behind is an emperor standing atop his nine-tiered palace, keeping watch over ten thousand miles of lonely silence, finally understanding:

He can calculate everything in this world, except her heart.