Blurb:
Jiang Yingxue is the young emperor's personal maid. With almond-shaped eyes and rosy cheeks, she is alluring and enchanting.
At sixteen, the Empress Dowager arranged for her to marry the second son of the Prime Minister's family.
But on the eve of her wedding, Jiang Yingxue had a dream. In it, the refined and handsome second son gripped her chin, his voice icy as he said, "You have slept with the young emperor, yet you still dare dream of becoming a wife of the Li family?"
Then he shoved her away and left without looking back.
For the next three years, she lived under her husband's suspicion and her household's cold stares, until she died of despair.
When she awoke, Jiang Yingxue looked at the red candles filling the room, turned around, and threw herself into the young emperor's arms.
The night air was cool. Xiao Mo glanced at the woman dressed in red silk and said with studied indifference, "Yingxue has been so dutiful. The wedding is tomorrow. Do you want to serve me one last time tonight?"
He put particular emphasis on the word "serve."
As soon as he finished speaking, she untied her red silk robes, wrapped her arms around his narrow waist, and said in a trembling voice, "This servant doesn't want to marry. I beg Your Majesty to grant my wish."
She didn't want to marry? When the Empress Dowager's decree arranging her marriage arrived, he'd heard she was delighted.
The young emperor, who had always cared about appearances, spent a sleepless night and made the most outrageous decision of his life: he stole the second son of the Prime Minister's bride!
Xiao Mo, the young emperor, is gloomy and obsessive, and no one dares contradict him in court. But no one knows that he was once a bright, sunny boy.
That boy had someone in his heart he could never let go of.
When his mother punished him and his brothers bullied him, she stayed by his side as he crouched on the ground and cried.
When he became emperor and stained his hands with blood to purge the court, she stayed by his side too.
But just when he thought she would never leave him, his mother's marriage decree gave her to another man.
And she was actually overjoyed, counting out her belongings and putting on her wedding dress.
The young emperor, who hadn't killed anyone in a long time, looked at the jubilant members of the Prime Minister's family: Every last one of you will die!
(Screenshot taken on January 22, 2022.)
Theme: Never give up hope, no matter what!
