The Princess Wants to Become Emperor

(The scene in this blurb takes place in Chapter 15)

Song Yicheng first met Qiu He when he took an arrow for her. Someone else might have taken the hit in his place, but Song Yicheng remembered him all the same.

Qiu He was badly wounded by that arrow, so she brought him back to the capital with her, where he could recover.

At first, Song Yicheng planned to reward him with some money and buy him a house once he had healed, repaying him for taking that arrow.

But she never expected that, before his wound had healed, her mother would summon him to the palace. By the time she arrived, he had already drunk an entire bowl of sterilizing medicine.

Song Yicheng could not understand it. She had offered him so many benefits and so much freedom, so why had he obeyed her mother and drunk the medicine, just to become a kept man at her side, someone she could cast aside at any time?

He said, "Your Highness, I am a lowly person. I should never have presumed to touch a princess. What happened today, that bowl of medicine, was the Empress's way of giving me a chance: a chance to stay by Your Highness's side and serve you, a chance to become someone who understands your heart."

"I begged Her Majesty the Empress to grant me that medicine."

"Your Highness, please let me stay!"

Watching him kneel on the ground, his frail frame barely concealed by his thin blue robe as he poured out his feelings, Song Yicheng had to admit that, for a moment, she felt sorry for him.

Her father had once said that of all the emotions in this world, family came first and love could come second. As the most favored Princess Pingyao, she could have family or not, and likewise, she could have love or not.

It all depended on what she wanted.

She realized that she did want it.

So no matter how many things happened afterward, she never abandoned him.

Reader's Guide:

1. Noble princess x humble performer. No childbirth plotline; the male lead is truly unable to have children.

2. A fictional dynasty. The founding emperor was an empress, so heirs of either sex can inherit the throne. The female lead will eventually become emperor.

3. Note: The female lead starts as a princess and later becomes emperor. She has a harem.

Theme: Love is the greatest thing in the world.