With a Powerful Minister in Charge, Your Majesty, Please Restrain Yourself

He was the emperor's most favored shadow guard, and the most false-smiling minister at court.

Everyone thought he was obsequious, with a life as worthless as a blade of grass.

Until, in front of everyone, he opened his robe and revealed a golden-red phoenix crest on his back

“Your Majesty, when you wiped out my entire clan, did you ever think one of us might have survived?”

Later, the emperor who had once said, “Your life belongs to me,” knelt all night in the misty rain of Jiangnan, begging for just one backward glance.