The maid by her side had no idea that decades ago, she had been a consort in this Ye Palace, that her husband, whom she had married with their hair tied together, had once been a ruler of a kingdom, or that the Hall of Shared Hearts had once been her bedchamber.
The story of Emperor Xiaojing Yuan Shanjian, the puppet emperor of Eastern Wei, and his beloved consort, Lady Li of Zhao Commandery.
Theme: Being unable to control one's own fate in a troubled age
