[The heroine can see on-screen comments + the hero abandons her early on + the heroine is obsessively in love and possessive, and has him sterilized. Note: If you can't accept this, don't click in. The hero is not a eunuch; the heroine just loves him too much.]
On the brink of death, Shen Mingyao finally learned that she was the future emperor's long-lost first love, destined to die young.
Tears fell one by one, while her mocking smile grew wider.
What kind of long-lost first love was she?
Wasn't she the one he had ordered killed with his own lips?
She touched the child in her belly. Just yesterday, he had been tender and affectionate with her, but today he was marrying someone else. Shen Mingyao closed her eyes. “Good baby, are you afraid to come with your mother?”
Ten years later
Shen Mingyao held the hand of her three-year-old child and gazed at the emperor high above her.
Hadn't he said he loved her so much he couldn't live without her? Then he could “stay” with her, and they would never be apart again.
Everyone knew the reigning emperor had a long-lost first love who died young. Most of the consorts he took into the palace resembled that woman in some way.
Then a woman who looked nine-tenths like that first love appeared.
But she was already married, a pretty young widow with a child.
At first, the emperor was dismissive: She was beautiful, but she was still a widow who had been married before.
Later, the emperor pored over the law books: Now that he thought about it, no law said an emperor couldn't take a twice-married woman into the palace, right?
...Later still
Two hundred thousand cavalry rode into the capital. In full view of the crowd, that twice-married woman gripped a blade and forced the emperor to abdicate, becoming the sovereign herself.
“Your Majesty's dear brother, people used to force you to show favor to other women. Now that I've become emperor, no one can force you to share your affections anymore.”
