Fragile Beauty: A Dream of Splendor in the Deep Palace

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On their wedding night, he took the groom's place. The candles burned low, smoke filled the air, and sorrow lay scattered everywhere.

He said, “This is the price you pay for betraying me.”

She didn't know what it meant to betray him. When she hurt him, wasn't she only hurting herself as well?

His wicked, sinister eyes seemed to blaze with the fires of hell, burning her to ashes...

He said, “You aren't even fit to be a prostitute anymore, so why pretend to be a virtuous woman?”

The day after their wedding, a divorce letter was thrown in her face. In front of everyone, her husband's family had her carried back to her parents' home.

The man who should have been her groom could only watch her helplessly from beginning to end.

She said, “I'll leave. From now on, I will have nothing more to do with the Su family.”

She came in sorrow and left with resolve. Like a snow lotus on a high mountain, she was cold, proud, and pure. Her white robes swept past, yet in the end she could not escape the cage he had carefully woven for her.

When they met again, he was a supreme ruler, the emperor of a nation. His every gesture radiated a natural authority that overwhelmed her.

And she was nothing more than a lowly maid.

He looked down at her, his cold eyes full of scorn. “Remember, you are nothing but a bed warmer for me. You have no right to say no.”

Yet he could also treat her with tender care, as if time had turned back and things were as they once had been.

Their shattered feelings had already carved a deep chasm between them. She could not cross it, and neither could he.

She was as aloof as a snow lotus, humble as dust.

Behind the red palace walls, all the splendor faded away. In the end, who was hurt? Who was tormented? Who was scheming? The glittering palace was no more than a fleeting illusion, just a drama played out for others to watch. What did it matter if she gave up the whole realm? She could never win back the heart she had once given with all her being!

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