Before her suicide, Xiao Shizhen was the demon empress reviled by all. She bewitched the ruler and brought ruin to the realm, ruthless in all she did. Yet the young emperor promised to love only her for all his life. Then she led her followers into the imperial city and saw the bodies of those who had died because of her, the red in the young emperor’s eyes, and the long sword in his hands pointed at her. She resolutely leapt down, believing she would be smashed to pieces. But things did not go as she expected: she survived. Twelve years later, a bald monk threatened to drag her back into the world, and she was forced to disguise herself as a woeful, ugly woman. Worse still, she turned around and ran into her former husband... So she runs, he chases, and she seems to have nowhere to flee...
