Chen Jiao transmigrated.
The good news: she became the empress.
The bad news: her husband was the emperor in "control the emperor to command the lords," and the lords were about to kill him.
Chen Jiao looked at the favored consort, who had a powerful lord for a father, and trembled with fear.
If the consort could push the empress into a pond and still swagger around in the empress's own palace, it seemed Chen Jiao's days as empress were numbered.
To avoid becoming collateral damage in the court's power struggles, Chen Jiao decided to make a run for it. The autumn hunt outside the palace was the perfect chance.
After every hardship, Chen Jiao finally shook off her maids and climbed onto the wall. Freedom was so close, just within...
Chen Jiao, stuck on top of the wall and unable to climb over, looked down and locked eyes with the young emperor, who was holding onto her skirt.
"Your Majesty, could you let go?"
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Chen Jiao and young Liu Ji wandered from place to place, enduring hardship and escaping death. Many years later, she accompanied him back to the imperial capital and watched him take power into his own hands. But when she tried to flee the palace at night, Liu Ji himself blocked her at the southern palace gate.
Looking into those eyes, which had grown increasingly unfamiliar, Chen Jiao once more asked the cold, inscrutable emperor the same question: "Your Majesty, could you let go?"
Tips: An older woman-younger man romance. The heroine is two years older than the hero. They rely on and support each other.
Theme: Keep striving to survive.
