The One in My Heart

When the young Emperor Chu Jun was traveling incognito, he saw a little girl who had fallen on hard times and was living on the streets. He watched as she was beaten, then stepped in front of her and, with a wave of his noble hand, rescued her and took her in as a servant.

Seeing the dark smudges on her face, he took an amused interest in giving her a name: "Dirty."

Dirty thought she could finally enjoy a good life.

But later, all she wanted was to get away from the depths of the imperial palace and escape the man who seemed gentle as jade but was, in truth, sinister and ruthless, a man who was nothing like he appeared.

In the end, Dirty managed to escape as she'd wished, only to learn the truth about her birth by chance. She was the princess whom the Hong Dynasty had been searching for all these years, named Yan Qing.

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The two dynasties were locked in constant conflict. Unable to defeat the Song Dynasty, the Hong Dynasty proposed a political marriage and sent Yan Qing to Song. After a year of upheaval, she had no choice but to return to his side, despite her deep reluctance.

Everyone said that Emperor Chongjing of the Song Dynasty was a man of mercurial temperament. He had ruled for years without naming an empress, and had a white moonlight in his heart. Ever since that beloved person had left, his disposition had changed overnight. He drank heavily and neglected the affairs of state.

Yan Qing didn't believe it. He was certainly cruel, and certainly mercurial, but how could a man as heartless as him have a white moonlight?

The man always repaid a grudge. To keep herself alive, Yan Qing began disguising herself, becoming a completely different person from Dirty.

But on the very first night, the man seized her and held her fast. Then he looked at her face and murmured, "Dirty..."

A tide churned in Yan Qing's heart, but her face blossomed into a bewitching smile. "Your concubine pays her respects to Your Majesty."

The man furrowed his brows and released her.

He thought: His Dirty would never act so obsequiously.

Little Scene

Every day, Yan Qing fretted over what she could do to make Emperor Chongjing hate her. But no matter what she did, the man seemed to... like her more and more.

By chance, she came across a portrait of Dirty from many years ago.

Yan Qing looked at the man beside her, who was handling state affairs. With a wounded, pitiful expression, she made a fuss and pointed at the woman in the portrait. "Do you love her or me?"

The man furrowed his brows.

Seeing that the young woman was about to make a big scene again, he fixed his gaze on her and answered seriously, his words full of meaning: "You."

1: Childhood sweethearts / rekindled love / reunion after a long separation

2: One-on-one romance

3: The heroine pretends she isn't Dirty. At first, she and the hero test each other!

4: The two were childhood sweethearts

Theme: Only love that goes both ways has meaning.