[Tragic romance]
Understand the beginnings early, and the bitter ending will never come.
That was the first lesson Ting Zhijiao taught her.
He is the emperor, wielding supreme power and looking down on all living things from his place above the heavens.
“I am the thirteenth ruler of the Tianyong Dynasty, known as Shun. My personal name is Ceyi.”
He is Emperor Tianshun, clad in the imperial robes, decisive and ruthless. He is not the Xiao Tingzhi who once climbed trees and caught fish with her.
That was the second lesson Ting Zhijiao taught her.
In the third year of Tianshun's reign, the imperial selection is about to begin. The legitimate daughter of her household is afraid of the imperial palace and refuses to take part, so she, the concubine-born daughter, is naturally put forward in her place.
But she never expected that the Emperor who rules the realm would be someone from her past.
He has the face of the man she remembers, but not the feelings.
