The Ashen Emperor Captures My Heart

Deep within the secret palace of the Great Yao dynasty, A Jin, the daughter of a disgraced minister, struggles to survive as a lowly servant. In truth, she bears the fated destiny of a secret clan’s rebirth, and has become a vessel of vital essence and blood for the tyrant Xiao Che to secure his imperial power, enduring endless humiliation. As she fights to survive the treacherous inner palace, friends and family die one after another protecting her. Hatred and the will to live intertwine as she conceals her obsession with restoring her clan and gradually uncovers the secrets of the dynasty. Xiao Che suffers from the backlash of forbidden arts. Though his possessive confinement of her is obsessive, his feelings are genuine. As love and hate pull them in opposite directions, the secret clan’s bloody feud and the imperial conspiracy slowly come to light. The two struggle with the truth and the choices before them, until, amid the ruins of the Ember Palace, they reach the end of love and hatred in a regretful romance that never comes to fruition, leaving only a lifetime of sorrow.