There's a chilling rumor about the Shao Palace. One night, a palace attendant carrying a lantern on patrol passed the imperial study and saw the gauze curtains sway in the moonlight. On the emperor's desk, a brush moved with a soft scratching sound, as though a ghost were writing.
[Emperor shou vs. Emperor gong]
In the eighth month of the third year of Wusheng, a bolt of lightning struck the late emperor's mausoleum, shattering the coffin. The mausoleum keeper went to investigate and saw bones gleaming with an eerie light. A fresh-looking cut marked the neck, and the skull was gone.
Far away in the Shao Palace, the emperor cradled the skull and glanced toward an empty corner of his chambers with a smile.
A mad, breathtaking beauty and his dead ghost of an older brother husband. Includes childbearing.
Reader's Guide:
1. Pseudo-incest, age gap with the gong older, one-on-one romance, happy ending.
2. Multiple first-person viewpoints, mainly from the shou's perspective.
3. The younger brother is adored by everyone, but he only loves his older brother.
4. This is purely a freeform writing exercise. Updates whenever inspiration strikes, so it's not suited for readers who like to follow ongoing updates.
Theme: Devoted love
