Winning the Emperor's Heart

A carefully plotted scheme leaves her pregnant with a child whose father she doesn't know. Because of her, the illegitimate daughter of the Prime Minister's household, the family's reputation is in ruins. Urged on by her brother and sister, her father poisons the child just before it is due to be born and abandons her body in the wilderness. To avenge her child's murder and her own abandonment, she willingly becomes a pawn in the game played by the man she loves. She enters the palace to bewitch the emperor, claim the throne of Empress, and take the love of her enemy.

When he realizes that her heart belongs to someone else, he nevertheless clasps her hand and leads her to the throne of Empress.

She knows she has wronged him.

Before all the people of the realm, she removes her phoenix crown and faces the one she loves. "With nothing left to hold me back, I ask to return to the one I love."

He blocks her path, bends down, and picks up their son. "Zhen'er, call her Mother."

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