After Three Years Deposed, the Emperor Says He Was Keeping Me a Widow

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Shen Qingshuang was deposed and sent to the Cold Palace for three years, accused of witchcraft.

She thought Xiao Jingheng hated her. He stripped her of her position, wiped out her entire family, and looked at her as if his eyes were rimed with ice.

Until one winter night, when she felt her way into a hidden compartment and found a twin-fish jade pendant. Four words were carved into its back, etched into the jade and into her very bones: "Together in longing, together forever."

At last, she understood: deposing her had been his way of keeping her alive.

He had endured for three years, kept the truth from her for three years. The emperor, decisive and ruthless in court, did not dare tell her a single honest word. She thought she was a discarded pawn, never knowing that he had hidden her in the one place his enemies' blades could never reach.

When the Cold Palace doors opened again, she was no longer a pawn waiting to be protected.

This time, with a healer's hands, a strategist's wisdom, and a commander's courage, she would stand by his side and face the raging undercurrents that threatened to topple the realm. Three factions at court watched like tigers ready to pounce. Of the late emperor's seven sons, some were dead and others had rebelled. Two hundred thousand northern cavalry pressed at the border. And a jade hairpin, forgotten beneath the ruins, held the last three lines her mother had bought with her life:

"Your mother loves you."

The osmanthus bloomed again in Jiangnan.

Holding half a jade pendant, he stood outside her clinic all day. When the door opened, the wind scattered osmanthus blossoms across the ground.

"Wandering physician, are you still taking patients?"

She slowly opened her palm. The other half of the pendant lay there, warmed by her body until it felt smooth and warm as jade.

"Yes. The fee is not high..."

"An unwavering heart."