Who in Chang'an didn't know of Wang Baochuan, the third daughter of the prime minister, and her devotion to love? To marry Xue Pinggui, she struck her palms against her father's three times and waited eighteen years in a cold cave. But when her husband finally returned, he brought along a princess from Xiliang and their two children. He made her empress, and eighteen days later, she “died of illness” in the palace.
When she awoke reborn, she found herself kneeling in the ancestral hall of the prime minister's residence, her father's furious face before her.
In her previous life, she had said, “Your daughter has no regrets.”
In this life, she bowed her head to the floor. “Your daughter was wrong. I'll accept whatever punishment Father decides.”
Xue Pinggui thought she would spend another eighteen years digging wild vegetables for him.
He didn't know that this time around
On the day he went to Xiliang to marry his bride, she was entering the palace by imperial decree to serve as the Crown Prince's study companion.
By the time he ascended the throne of Xiliang, she had already become the youngest empress in the Great Tang.
Later, Xue Pinggui, King of Xiliang, came to pay his respects to the emperor of Great Tang.
Kneeling on the golden palace floor, he looked up toward the phoenix throne.
The face he had yearned for day and night over the past eighteen years looked down at him, a faint smile playing on her lips.
“King of Xiliang, it's been a long time.”
