The Midwife Who Sees Both Worlds, and the Cold-Faced Emperor Every Night

Featuring contrasting character dynamics and the tension of fate

Just after I entered the palace, the cold-faced Emperor singled me out to spend the night with him. But he didn’t want my body. He wanted my heart!

I am a midwife, helping the palace consorts give birth.

But they don’t know that with my left hand I deliver the living, and with my right I guide the souls of the dead.

That decisive, cold-faced Emperor corners me night after night, his voice low as he says he wants to cut open my heart and take a look.

I thought he’d uncovered my secret and planned to kill me to silence me, until he pointed at the wrongfully dead infant spirit behind me and asked coldly:

“You can see it too?”

Only then did I realize that by day he was the supreme ruler, but by night he was the judge of the human world, wielding a Judge’s brush to vanquish every demon and evil spirit under heaven.