The Skeleton Empress Is Reborn: The Mad Regent Kneels to Offer Her His Empire

Discarded book, discarded book, discarded book

Discarded book, discarded book, discarded book

[Tortured Romance]

Ji Linghuang, queen of Beizhao, will not live past the age of twenty-four. To seize a qilin heart and prolong her life, she sets an ambush on a snowy plain and captures the last white qilin in the world.

Ji Linghuang, queen of Beizhao, sets an ambush on a snowy plain to claim the power of the divine qilin, capturing the last white qilin in the world capable of taking human form.

She imprisons him in the royal court, lavishes him with supreme favor, and bestows on him the name Zexi.

As docile as a tamed beast, he pacifies the four corners of the realm for her and takes blades and arrows in her stead.

She thinks everything is under her control.

She does not know that he has understood her scheme from the very beginning.

She does not know that whenever he looks at her, he has always been seeing someone else: a woman named A Luan.

She feels she has become nothing but a substitute.

She resents it, she is furious, and she is jealous of the dead woman.

But she does not know that A Luan is her own past self, whom she has forgotten.

On their wedding night, she finally speaks: “I want your heart.”

He smiles, cuts out his qilin heart, and sinks it into her body.

“Your Majesty, my heart has always belonged to you. It has for three hundred years.”

Afterward, she lives on in his form, protecting the beast clans he once abandoned.

Every year, when the peach blossoms bloom, she goes to the ten-mile peach grove, cradles the heart that has long since grown cold, and softly asks:

“Why don’t you come and see this vast realm?”

Love as a blade, a heart torn out as the trap. Kings never meet, yet the king lives in the heart.