Kuang Lu loved the Heavenly Emperor Run Yu for six thousand years. From the desolate quiet of the Xuanji Palace to the splendor of the Ninth Heaven, the most she ever got in return was: “Kuang Lu, you may leave.”
Everyone knew she was the Heavenly Emperor’s most capable female official, but no one knew of the sighs she gave in the dead of night.
When her heart finally turned to ashes, she resigned from her post as Shangyuan Fairy and decided to set herself free.
As it happened, the Dragon King’s birthday banquet was approaching, and the invitation delivered by the Dragon Prince Ao Ke found its way by mistake to the Tai Si residence. At a single glance, the woman known as the “mistress of the Xuanji Palace” found her way into his heart.
Unlike the cold solitude of the Ninth Heaven, Ao Ke’s love was like the sunrise over the sea, blazing and forthright. He showed her the wonders of the four seas, promised her a wedding procession stretching for miles, and chased the thousand-year loneliness from her eyes.
But on the eve of the wedding, the Ninth Heaven erupted in fury.
For the first time, the aloof Heavenly Emperor lost control. He stormed into the wedding hall, suppressed fury churning in his eyes after six thousand years: “Kuang Lu, I will not allow you to marry anyone else!”
Without her, the Xuanji Palace had grown so cold it drove people mad.
When his possessive imprisonment sank into her bones, Kuang Lu chose the sun and gave up the moon.
The sun would always burn bright, while the moon was used to being alone in the cold.
A rewrite of The Emperor's Heart Is Hard to Cage, with some differences from the original story.
