I Marry My Brother’s Sister-in-Law Today, and Live to Regret It

When Fuzhen was sixteen, the empress dowager made an exception and named her empress because her birth chart promised good fortune for her husband.

She married into the imperial palace to bring good fortune to the gravely ill emperor, who was confined to his bed.

But the welcoming ceremony on the day she entered the palace was carried out by a young prince, only fourteen years old, who was standing in for his elder brother at the wedding.

At their first meeting, his looks left her awestruck. Yet after the empress's coronation ceremony, he vanished as if he had disappeared from the world, never to be seen again. It turned out he had been practicing asceticism at the Huguo Temple since childhood.

Time passed. Five years later, the emperor died, and as a childless widow, her position in the palace became precarious.

The empress dowager ordered him to enter the palace, a place rife with schemes.

He had devoted himself to the Buddha and strictly observed the precepts, but fate pushed him step by step toward the abyss.

In the depths of the palace, faced with his pitiful sister-in-law, the defenses around his heart gradually crumbled. In the end, he broke his vows.

Rumors surged through the palace like crashing waves, and every step they took was fraught with fear.

They had to face not only society's judgment and moral condemnation, but also the empress dowager's relentless pressure and the open and hidden power struggles at court. In this complicated situation, could they overcome every obstacle?

And where would the maelstrom of power carry them?