Please add to your favorites: A shamaness who embodies both divinity and demonic nature x a gentle, calculating, tragic emperor of striking beauty
Emperor Chengxi had always been benevolent and kind, with a heart as bright as jade and a face as lovely as an orchid. He was truly a man of noble bearing.
Yet ten years into his reign, he still had no children.
This was because he always slept alone in a shabby palace building, said to have once been the residence of the late Consort Dian.
Ten years earlier, when Emperor Chengxi was still a prince, he was sent to the Kingdom of Dian as a hostage. It was there that he met Yizhu, who would later become Consort Dian.
They said Yizhu was a shamaness. She could control venomous snakes, but more terrifying still, she could make poisonous insects lay eggs inside living people, turning them into insect thralls covered in vicious parasites.
This was the same eerie, terrifying shamaness who stood by Emperor Chengxi when he was a hostage, sharing his hardships and saving his life time and again. She even became his wife.
Emperor Chengxi endured every hardship in Dian. Once he returned to the Central Plains and ascended the throne, he immediately sent troops southwest.
Dian was defeated. Its king bowed in submission, relinquished the kingdom's name, and established prefectures and counties, acknowledging the Central Plains dynasty as the legitimate ruling power.
During the war, Yizhu summoned snakes and insects, nearly causing the Central Plains army to collapse across the entire front.
But at the crucial moment, Emperor Chengxi broke her spell and captured her with his own hands.
He knew her too well.
He could strike straight at her weaknesses.
Emperor Chengxi brought Yizhu to the Central Plains, where she was confined in the palace from then on.
People said, "Among three thousand beauties, all pale beside her. Only Consort Wu enjoys the emperor's favor."
But Emperor Chengxi's exclusive love and favor ultimately brought disaster upon Yizhu.
Fate, in the end, would not spare a pair of lovers.
Reading notes:
1. The male and female leads are original characters created by the author and are not based on any historical figures.
2. The story is fictional. Please don't take it seriously or associate it with any historical dynasty.
3. One-on-one romance, both leads are virgins, happy ending.
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Theme: Once love slips into the heart, a person can grow
