The Locked Terrace

That spring, the rain fell in sparse showers. Lu Qingchan knelt before the new emperor, a ruthless killer, and pleaded for her fiance.

Xiao Ke looked at the graceful beauty before him and said with a faint smile, "All right."

Only he knew that everything he had done was for this day.

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"That year, I followed the late emperor on a campaign. The fighting had just ended, and I saw the lovely mountains and the sunset spreading across the land. Do you know what I was thinking?" Xiao Ke spoke calmly, as if making idle conversation. "I was thinking that if Lu Qingchan were here, I'd conquer this empire and give it to her."

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