Many years later, Xie Yin would still remember Fu Rujin standing before the palace of Yue with blood-red eyes, severing both his legs as blazing flames raged behind him;
She would also remember Fu Ruyu hanging himself in front of the Eastern Palace, the farewell letter he had sent through someone, and an early-blooming plum blossom in the palace.
But she never regretted it. Not once.
The female lead is a dark-to-darker, universally adored Mary Sue, in a political intrigue story. The political scheming is no more complicated than the author's intelligence.
In short, it's a story about the heroine ending up with the empire and boundless loneliness all to herself.
Theme: Have a sense of duty to your family and country.
