In the novel A Pledge of the Realm, the last emperor, Qin Wuxue, had a beloved who had shared both hardship and joy with him.
But later, the heroine entered the palace. After they went through a torturous romance, the last emperor finally realized that the heroine was the one he truly loved.
Unwilling to accept her loss of favor, the beloved conspired with rebels and planned to save the emperor at the cost of her own life, hoping to stir his guilt.
That was when A Yao arrived.
When she opened her eyes, the banquet was already well underway. Before her lay chaos and turmoil. In the flickering firelight, a cold blade cut through the air and came straight at her.
She remembered what happened next in the book.
The last emperor could have dodged the sword, but after seeing through the whole scheme, he chose to watch coldly.
He let the beloved be pierced by blades and collapse to the ground, twitching and motionless.
A Yao didn't want to die, and she didn't want anyone else to die either.
So, just before the sword reached her, she quietly ducked behind a nearby pillar.
Shhk
The blade pierced the last emperor's body.
A Yao was stunned.
She turned around shakily and saw the last emperor's dark, striking features and his shocked, furious gaze.
A Yao: QAQ
#What do you do when you dodge halfway through taking a sword for the tyrannical last emperor of a fallen dynasty#
#Is he going to try to strangle me#
#Huh, he didn't strangle me. He even made me empress?#
#This last emperor seems a little dumb#
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Qin Wuxue had once particularly hated someone.
Though she had grown up in the darkest depths of the world, she was delicate, loved keeping clean, was carefree, and couldn't stand even the slightest grievance.
Like a beautiful white flower, trembling as it bloomed in a crack in the cold rocks.
On the day the succession to the throne was settled and the unrest ended, he went to find her with the edict naming her empress in hand, his face cold and his reluctance plain. He thought, I simply have no other choice.
But as he walked down the corridor, his pace grew faster and faster, almost making the air whistle.
Then he saw her.
She ran toward him in a white dress, calling him A Xue, wearing the expression most unfamiliar to him: reserved, yet full of tender affection.
From her expression to her bearing, nothing was the same.
That night, he sat motionless on the steps before Fengyi Hall until dawn.
When the sky brightened, he raised his hand.
He let the raging flames turn the edict to ash.
Naive, delicate beloved x slightly unhinged last emperor
Each other's first love, devoted to one another in body and soul
Theme: Eternal love