Power struggles + emperor + palace intrigue + forced love.
When he was young, Xiao Xian stood atop a high wall and said to Lu Qiumei:
“Xiaojiu, in this life, I will marry no one but you.”
Xiao Xian eagerly waited for his chance, the chance to marry Lu Qiumei in a grand ceremony.
But when he braved the pouring rain to find her, Lu Qiumei told him:
“Xiao Xian, I never intended to marry you.”
“I, Lu Qiumei, will become empress.”
Lu Qiumei lived in splendor as empress for three years.
Then, three years later, the political landscape changed overnight.
The boy she had shut out had grown into the regent everyone feared.
But by then, Lu Qiumei was no longer the girl who had been so determined to become empress.
After she had given up on becoming empress, she encountered Xiao Xian, who was determined to force her to become one.
Xiao Xian longed for Lu Qiumei to use every tactic and every sweet lie to win him over, just as she had once done to become empress, so he could satisfy the complex emotional needs buried deep within him.
And so it all quietly unfolded amid the shifting currents of the imperial palace…
Very nice. It's just that the article is too short and not enough to read.