Love Is the Hardest Trial to Survive

She had a dream. A woman in red with her face veiled carried a lantern through the endless snow, leading her to a strange world. When she woke, she had somehow arrived six years in the future. She could hardly believe she had married that refined young man, as precious as jade, and become his empress. Being empress was rather miserable, but for the sake of having a handsome husband, she was willing to find joy in the hardship. As the gaps in her memory slowly filled in, she felt more and more sorry for herself. This place was no prosperous land, but a den of demons that devoured people without a trace. She struggled desperately here, but to no avail. No one cared about her, much less whether she lived or died. In the harem, human lives were worth no more than ants. She gradually saw the emperor’s true face: darkness to the bone, stopping at nothing. That was who he really was. But only at the very last moment did she realize just how precious this experience had been to her. (The heroine saves herself in this story!)