[Ancient sayings about sadomasochism｜Palace and imperial power｜Two-way use｜Emperor × Grand Tutor's legitimate daughter]
She had been loved tenderly by a bright moon, so she was no longer afraid of any abyss.
Mu Wanqing, the direct daughter of the Grand Tutor, was once the moon held in the palm of the young general Shen Shi's hands. He would climb over the wall and break a plum blossom for her, and on the eve of the expedition, he would press it against her forehead and say, "Wait until I come back to marry you."
But he didn't come back.
A decree granting marriage sent her to the deep palace, and Shen Shi died on the battlefield. Before his death, he left only one sentence: "May Wanqing live a long life, be happy and worry-free."
After entering the palace, she met the seventh prince Xie Linchuan, a man who had a profile similar to Shen Shi's but had completely opposite temperament. She approached him to find out the cause of Shen Shi's death, and he used her to seize the legitimate heir. The two tested and competed with each other in the dark night, but they never expected that he would be sincerely moved.
The first thing Xie Linchuan did after he ascended the throne was to use her entire family as a threat to forcibly make her a noble concubine. He cut down the white plums in her palace and planted red ones; he killed those who gossiped about her, and he guarded her naked when she was sick. His love is a cage, a possession, a paranoia that insists on forcing someone else on her even though he knows she has someone else in mind.
And she spent two whole years setting up the chess game. When her family was safe, she pulled the hairpin to her throat and threatened her with her life.
"You're crazy!" His eyes were red.
"Concubines are His Majesty's weakness," she cried with a smile, "I have always been."
He has the world, but after all he can't keep a woman who is heartbroken. On the day she left the palace, he stood on the tower all night.
Many years later, at the border, she brought a little girl with eyebrows and eyes that looked very much like his father, blowing the wind that had blown by Shen Shi.
