This Is Bad, Your Majesty! The Empress Has Escaped!

(The entire story is told in first person from the heroine’s perspective, so we can’t see the hero’s inner thoughts. There may be a little angst.)

At six, she entered the palace to become the princess’s companion.

The inner palace was perilous, rife with intrigue and shifting undercurrents.

Pure-hearted by nature, she gradually fell into an ornate web woven from lies.

Only when everything had settled did she awaken from her great dream.

When she learned the truth and found no one by her side, where could she go?