My Thoughts Drift to You, Far Away

The Shen family, the most loyal family in the empire, rebelled.

My father was executed on the spot, and everyone in the household was beheaded in the street.

But I, the Shen family's legitimate daughter, survived.

The emperor kept me imprisoned at his side, claiming it was because he loved me.

Yet he trampled on my dignity without restraint, allowing others to humiliate me in public.

Later, poisoned and gravely ill in bed, he still stubbornly asked me, “Did you ever love me?”

I sneered. “Never.”