She had been waiting for him for ten years. He kept her for ten years.
She is Yunshu, the empress of the Zhou Dynasty. She ascended the throne at the age of eighteen and put down the rebellion of the Six Kingdoms in three years. The court officials forced her to audition, and she held on for three years - until the man returned to Beijing thousands of miles away and knelt down on one knee in front of the civil and military officials of the court:
"I, Lu Zheng, have been guarding the border for ten years. I have no wife or concubines. My body and mind are clean. I beg for your Majesty's mercy."
He was her childhood sweetheart, the God of War of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the general who guarded Yanmen Pass for ten years. He broke into her court with a "letter of self-recommendation" and hid his longing for her for ten years with a "fake marriage".
But the fake show turned out to be true after all.
In the bloody battle at Yanmen, he held off an army of 200,000 troops with fifty thousand soldiers and was stabbed seventeen times. Before he fell into coma, he only left one sentence: "Tell your majesty that I am alive."
During the storm in the court, she slapped the censor for him and declared in public: "He is mine. If you want him, step over my corpse first."
There was also Prince Beidi who crawled out of the wolf's den, that "wolf cub" who killed many people, but after meeting her, he knew for the first time what it meant to be "regarded as a human being". He asked her: "Will you come again in the future?" She said: "Yes."
