They were deeply devoted to each other when they were young, but years later, death had left them on opposite sides of the divide.
“If there is another life, Yu'er only hopes that Your Majesty and I will go our separate ways and never meet again.”
1. Song Yuzhen (top) x Li Shuyan (bottom)
2. Quirky, jade-like empress top x scheming, ruthless, cold-blooded, and heartless emperor bottom
3. The top fakes her death, and the bottom goes mad.
4. The top is not the bottom's first. The bottom is a scumbag in the middle and later parts, and gets his comeuppance.
5. There are probably three volumes. The first is pure sweetness, while the second and third are pure melodramatic angst. Please mind the content warnings.
6. The ending is HE for the top and BE for the bottom, so I haven't tagged it as either HE or BE.
7. Illogical plot and terrible writing. Extreme fans of either character, stay away.
Theme: By the time you try to fix things, it may already be too late.