The Heart's Severance

The world calls me spoiled and laughs at me for being foolish.

When he was trapped in the mire, I turned my back on the Dragon Clan to stand by him. I was the one who fought alongside him through mountains of corpses and seas of blood to carve out a path to victory. Yet when he ascended to the throne of the God of War and received the worship of the three realms, he gave me a letter of divorce, claiming we were “incompatible.”

Later, I, the wife he had discarded like a worn-out shoe, stole my clan’s sacred treasure to give him a chance at life. For that, I sat alone for ten years in the Dragon Clan’s icy prison, enduring a cold that gnawed at my bones.

Now he has come, riding nine tiers of auspicious clouds. With power enough to topple the heavens, he forced my father and brothers to bow their heads, then opened my prison door himself.

He treats me with the utmost tenderness and remembers everything I like. His hand is steady as he paints my brows, and his touch is gentle when he helps me dress. He even knows exactly what to say to soothe me whenever I frown.

But that flawless attentiveness chills me to the bone.

My Haoyuan was never like this...