After Mistaking His Deep Love, the Emperor Begged on His Knees to Remarry Me

Shen Zhiwei, daughter of a military family, sees her clan wrongly accused and is forced into the palace to become empress. From cautious and meek, she comes to truly love the cold-faced Emperor Xiao Jingheng. For a time, they become the ideal imperial couple, praised throughout the land. But after a carefully orchestrated conspiracy accuses her of colluding with the enemy, he personally strips her of her title and sends her to the cold palace, destroying her in body and spirit. Three years later, she returns, reborn from the ashes. Now going by the name Lin Wei, she is a strategist who can sway the fate of the realm, helping an enemy prince seize the throne. When they meet again on the battlefield, she faces him coolly, holding all the cards, while he loses his composure. The man who once sat upon the throne now kneels at the palace gates of his own accord to atone. To make her turn back, he is even willing to wager his entire empire. When every plot is finally laid bare, he asks with red-rimmed eyes, “Zhiwei, can I trade my empire for your return?” She only smiles. “Your Majesty, your empire was never what I wanted.” This is a marriage alliance born of conspiracy, a love story scarred by pain. In the end, the emperor lays down his empire and places the phoenix crown once more upon the head of the only empress he has ever loved.