The Prideful Daughter’s Grudge in the Imperial Palace

As a hostage, he had spent years plotting in secret. At last, on a night of heavy snowfall, he slaughtered his way through the State of Qi, stepping over the corpses of her father and the soldiers of Qi to ascend the throne.

That night, he also crushed the innocent woman’s dreams with his own hands. Though he could hold her in his arms every night, she could never give him her heart again. He imprisoned her family to make her obedient and docile. Once childhood sweethearts, they now did nothing but play their parts.

All she felt for him was a hatred that grew by the day, a hatred that gnawed to the bone!