“From beginning to end, did you ever have even the slightest bit of genuine affection for Me?”
She shed every disguise, admitted to every scheme and plot, then pointed at her heart as tears streamed down her face.
“I calculated everything, except for this. Somewhere along the way, it stopped obeying me.”
He left in silence.
A few days later, he used decisive force to seize control of her family’s military power, yet sent her an imperial decree: an edict naming her empress.
A small note was written in the margin:
“I’ll share half my empire with you in exchange for your sincere love for the rest of your life. Will you?”
