I am a doctor. While gathering herbs in the mountains, I saved the emperor, who had been gravely wounded.
He fell in love with me at first sight and used every means at his disposal to make me his wife.
For my sake, he dismissed every concubine in his harem and defied all opposition to make me queen.
He promised that we would be the only ones in each other's lives, forever.
But in my seventh year as queen, he brought the daughter of the empire's greatest general into the palace and spent every day with her. He even gave her a phoenix hairpin meant exclusively for the queen.
I turned around and wrote a letter to my master.
"Master, you were right. Men are fickle, and emperors most of all. Three days from now, I'll fake my death and leave the palace. From then on, I'll stay by your side and never leave again."
