Endless Beauty

"When I first heard your lovely name, I thought it sounded so pleasing. I wonder, from now on, should I call you Lian'er or Jiu'er?"

"Jiu'er, tell me: if I seize this empire and present it to the one who holds my heart, will she fall for me?"

"I took this empire for her. When did I ever say it had anything to do with you?"

"Lian Jiu, after a lifetime of scheming, how could you still fail to see that I only ever used you?"

Every one of these moments belongs to Gongliang Rong and Lian Jiu, from beginning to end...

"Young man, you're awfully forward. We haven't even met, and already you want to call me that."

"She will. She'll definitely fall for you."

"That's right. You never said that you took the empire for me!"

"Ha. I spent my whole life scheming. You think I couldn't see that you were using me? Did you ever consider that I simply didn't want to see it?"

For him, Lian Jiu could give up wealth and luxury, give up a quiet life, and scheme at every turn, all to help him claim the highest seat in the empire. Yet in the face of overwhelming power, love and promises seemed to count for nothing. Gongliang Rong spent his whole life pursuing supreme imperial power, no matter the cost. He thought he had won, but he never knew that, at the very end, he would lose everything. He gave his heart to a young woman named Lian Jiu...