Behind the Palace Walls

【The wife-chasing repentance arc ✖️ tragic ending】【Palace-wall romance and heartbreak ✖️ no reconciliation after the breakup】【Palace intrigue】 On their wedding night, he told her, “I do not love you.” Later, when she stopped loving him, he went mad. On the winter solstice, a bowl of safflower tea took her child from her. She neither cried nor made a scene. At the Empress Dowager’s birthday banquet, she publicly asked to be deposed, her gaze as calm as still water. He chased her to Ciyun Temple. She stood in the rain beneath an umbrella. “You have a place for me in your heart, but you don’t know how to love someone. And my life isn’t meant to be spent waiting for you to learn.” The year she died in the palace, the throne of Empress remained empty. He sat alone in Fengyi Palace, facing a plum tree, from dusk until dawn. His final edict contained just one line: Bury me alongside the empress, with the rites due to her rank. While she was alive, she once said, “I don’t regret it. I just don’t want to go through it all again.” 【Severe angst warning】It’s not that she stopped loving him. She ripped that love out by the roots. Some people can never be won back.