My name is Mei Li. I was once the freest shark in the South China Sea. For a man, I gave up my spiritual skills in exchange for fish tails and became the concubine envied by everyone in the Dajing Palace.
He is Xiao Che, the emperor who I saved and promised to give me a stable life. When I first entered the palace, he scolded the courtiers and rebel families for me, and spread the fine sand from the South China Sea into the courtyard, saying that he would let me see the appearance of my hometown forever.
But I forgot that the emperor's love always involves trade-offs. Concubine Su stole the charcoal fire, but he protected me; at the palace banquet, someone used a wooden figure to frame me, but he punished the murderer but spared the mastermind; until I was pregnant with his child, a bowl of red flower soup made me bleed, and he watched me fall in a pool of blood without even saying a word to hold me accountable.
What's even more ridiculous is that I didn't know until the end that he kept me not because of love, but because Su Wan told him that a shark's heart can buy immortality.
When he walked into my palace with a dagger in his hand, and there was greed in his eyes that I had never seen before, I finally understood: it was not my people who were trapped in this deep palace, but my ridiculous obsession.
The broken shark beads cannot stick together, and the dead child cannot survive, so I will tear down this decaying palace wall with my own hands, and let him and his country be buried with my sincerity!
