“I paved every road for you, then quietly became the dust beneath your feet.”, Shen Weixi
Shen Weixi is a convict’s slave, the quietest maid at Xiao Jue’s side. She is also the unseen strategist behind his bid for the throne.
She offers him brilliant strategies, but the credit goes to his future consort.
She gives everything for him, yet he showers another woman with gratitude.
When a deadly assassination attempt comes, she takes an arrow for him, only to be met with his thunderous fury. “Wretched slave, how dare you attempt to assassinate me!” He personally has her thrown into the death prison, where she is subjected to brutal torture.
The day she is executed is the very day he ascends the throne as the new emperor and receives the people’s worship alongside his consort. No one knows that the confession she left behind was her final scheme to secure his empire. With her own disgrace and her life, she laid the last cornerstone of his eternal reign.
Xiao Jue finally rules a peaceful realm, but has forever lost the woman who gave him the whole world through endless nights.
I gave you light in the darkness, and you repaid me with a death sentence in broad daylight.
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