Proud Phoenix, Supreme and Unbowed
Supreme honors turn to hatred, and the two betray each other; the peerless beauty's tears finally run dry.
The phoenix empress and the emperor are both heartless; her pride stands tall, enduring to the end.
[An introduction you won't want to miss:]
Do you know? The imperial harem is a place that devours people.
When people used to say that to me, I thought it was ridiculous. Devours people? How terrifying could it be? More terrifying than watching my mother be mutilated, her limbs cut off?
Now I want to say that the harem really is a place that devours people, but what it devours isn't their bodies. It's their hearts.
I used to know nothing. He trained me to become a cold-hearted person, but it was all in preparation for avenging my mother, so I didn't care.
Gradually, after I got rid of everyone standing in the way of his ascension to the throne, I realized I had fallen in love with him, hopelessly.
But then I discovered that my mother hadn't been killed by some villain after all. And yet I had no way back.
I found out too late. There is no place left for me in this world.
