[Mad, Vengeful Fallen Princess x Brilliant Founding Emperor Driven Mad by Love | 20-Year Age Gap | Forbidden Entanglement | Everyone Gets a Bad Ending, No Redemption]
The Palace of Eternal Life is a famous folk tale of an emperor and his consort's love. Xiao Chenglin has always scoffed at it. In his view, a ruler who indulges in romance and neglects affairs of state is no different from the foolish, benighted Emperor of Yan.
When Yan Shuyao was seven, her kingdom fell. She watched her mother bleed across the palace steps, then narrowly escaped and drifted among the common folk. Later, she returned to Yanjing under someone else's identity, vowing to bring down the Great Ye Dynasty within ten years.
Through the Grand Princess's schemes, Yan Shuyao entered Xiao Chenglin's sight. She first married the Fourth Prince, Xiao Jingyu, pretending to win his heart and using him as a stepping stone for revenge. Before long, she saw through the emperor's hidden desire and resolved to make her move directly against Xiao Chenglin himself.
Xiao Chenglin was a peerless genius. When the tyrannical Emperor of Yan brought his realm to ruin, he raised an army, destroyed Yan, and founded Ye. Seduced by Yan Shuyao, this great ruler became ensnared by passion, disregarded propriety, and met with her in secret again and again.
He schemed to arrange her divorce from Jingyu, used prayers at a Taoist temple to conceal their affair, and later, in defiance of the entire court, brought her into the palace and made her Lady Xuanguo, showering her with every possible favor.
With the emperor indulging her, Yan Shuyao bared her
In the early stage, Yan Shuyao fought in the small house of Shen Mansion to avenge his close friend Shen Wu. In the middle period, she married the fourth prince Xiao Jingyu and had an affair with the emperor Xiao Chenglin. In the later period, Yan Shuyao went from the palace to the Taoist temple and then to the palace, and had a ten-year love-hate relationship with Xiao Chenglin.