It was their battle for the throne. Even though she wanted no part in it, she was swept up in their struggle and utterly defeated.
Candlelight flickered, pearls wept, and on that bewitching night, he tempted her to drink the poison of desire.
He lifted a strand of her dark hair, his expression full of tender affection.
Yet she heard his low voice murmur,
"Ai, even if I have to descend into the deepest hell, I will never let you go."
Just as his pride had once been reduced to ashes when the flames of the Red Lotus Calamity consumed everything.
The little princess of the underworld once loved a general of humble birth so deeply. She gave him her true heart and everything she had, only to receive endless exploitation and betrayal in return. So when her deep love was forbidden, she could only hide her feelings and marry another.
The ambitious great general believed that everything in the world was driven by profit, and that even her love could be wielded as his sword. But when the day finally came that he could turn the clouds with one hand and bring down the rain with the other, the regret and emptiness in his heart, an emptiness nothing could fill, proved unbearably painful.
And so, on this day, the flames of war spread across the land.
I think it's very pretty~ Maybe the name is a bit wrong, come on!
I feel so cruel when I read the introduction