[One spark of love can lead to a lifetime of wrong turns. The cruelest revenge is to make you fall in love with me, then destroy you with my own hands.]
[Later groveling and chasing after the wife + profound remorse + tragic romance]
Radiant, spoiled little princess vs ruthless, formidable chancellor, beautiful yet broken
Li Mingyue fell in love with Xie Yun at first sight and pursued him for five years before finally marrying him. Little did she know that their marriage was the perfect scheme for him to destroy her dynasty. On their wedding night, he slaughtered her family, stripped her of her title, watched coldly as she endured humiliation, and even took her child away. Her heart turned to ashes, and she died of illness on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Only after seeing the diary she had kept at thirteen, which read, “He seems so lonely,” did Xie Yun finally come to his senses. The person he had spent his whole life seeking revenge on was the only one in the palace who had ever truly cared for him. From then on, her memory burned like cinnabar in the emperor’s heart. He left the empress’s seat empty for twenty years, with only a lonely, snow-covered realm to stand in for her as he grew old.
The heroine fell in love with a cruel and ruthless man, and soon ended her tragic fate. Hatred swallows up all the good parts of the hero's humanity. His regret cannot be exchanged for sympathy, because it is too late.