The Last Song of the Qing Dynasty: Gardenias Bloom

He said, "You're so beautiful, so beautiful it hardly seems real. It feels as if even thinking of you is a kind of desecration..." He said, "When you're a little older, when the gardenias bloom, will you let me make you my empress?..." And so I believed him. I even forgot that he was the most romantic emperor of the Great Qing.