She was the legitimate daughter of the Minister of Revenue. On her wedding day, her betrothed was wrongly imprisoned. To save him, she married a prince as his secondary consort.
Five years later, she vanished without a trace. When she met her husband again, he did not recognize her. She was blind and reduced to begging.
Her husband took a princess from an enemy kingdom as his consort. Devastated, she went mad overnight. When he met her again, he made her his wife.
The murder of her father, the hatred of having his wife stolen: the entire Hou family had been loyal to the death, and this was a blood feud beyond all reconciliation.
Three years later, the new emperor ascended the throne and discovered her whereabouts. He led his army north.
He and she both took their own lives by hanging.
He built a tomb for her with no body, performed a summoning ritual, and personally sculpted her funerary figurine. He rewrote history and posthumously honored her as empress.
In the 21st century, a joint imperial tomb was unearthed in Yuncheng, stunning the archaeological world.
That same year, while building a subway in Youming City, workers discovered an ancient tomb belonging to a prince and marquis. According to the records, the female occupant of the tomb was of the same clan as the empress: they had the same parents and were twin sisters.
The vanished prince's consort, the vanished empress...
