She disfigures herself to look ugly, and the uglier she looks, the more he loves her: “That toad skin makes my heart itch!” She enters a marriage in name only with her unattainable beloved, and he frantically tries to steal her away: “The heir's wife? She looks like my dead ugly girl!”
On the night their disguises are exposed, the War God is stunned: “I was trying to steal my own woman?!”
On the road to clearing her name and becoming emperor, he kneels and begs: “I'll offer you the realm as your betrothal gift. Let me be your kept man again!” The most melodramatic love triangle in history, with a deranged War God falling for himself all over again!
