[Original GL, political intrigue, everyone is a villain]
"I still want to hear you call me Your Highness, Yuer."
"Your Highness."...
"Shh, don't listen to the quarrels outside the window. Listen to me. I only want to share... the ordinary joys of life with you."
[2]
"Heaven's will demands that I make her my empress. There's no need for you all to debate it further."
"Your Highness, you needn't go this far for Yuan Chi..."
"No. I want both the empire and the beauty."
[3]
"You are a meritorious subject. Your life and deeds should not be lost to the history books."
"Fourteen years. I bet you couldn't leave Yuer."
"That's right, fourteen years. I couldn't leave her. I couldn't forget her."
Two people who refuse to bow to fate are always trying to grasp something as elusive as "destiny" in their hands.
The throne? The realm? Who says they can't fight for them?
He can fight for it, she can fight for it, and so can I:
"My life, haha, was worth it."
So what if she lost? They, both women and men, were all a glorious part of this era.
Theme: Fate may have its way, but we only get one life. We have to fight for something, don't we?
