“Yanzhi, you weren’t like this before. You’ve changed.”
“Everyone changes, especially an emperor.”
Mu Yanzhi plunged a small knife into Shen Xiyu’s chest, all to cure the illness of his beloved. In the fifth year of Dahe, the late emperor arranged the marriage of six-year-old Shen Xiyu and ten-year-old Mu Yanzhi. Mu Yanzhi was born to Consort Xian, who had always taught him not to let his feelings cloud his judgment.
[He would never do anything that might cost him his dignity for my sake, yet for her, he would even go so far as to depose the empress.]
[I was once the cherished jewel of the Chancellor’s household, raised from childhood strictly to be the future crown princess.]
[When I was sixteen, my younger half-sister fell into the lake in winter and did not wake for several days. Afterward, her personality changed considerably, she knew medicine, and she was always saying strange things.]
Theme: Establishing a healthy view of love
