A Toast to the Wind: Who Rules the Realm?

He returned from the battlefield, brimming with murderous fury, allied with his rival, and helped install a new ruler.

“Shiyi, from the moment you saved me to all the help you gave me afterward, was it all just to make it up to me?”

“Han Tianyao, you’ve disappointed me... so deeply!”

She left without looking back, resolutely entering the palace and becoming the imperial consort, favored above all others in the harem.

He played the qin, performing the song she had taught him, “A Life of Drunken Dreams.”

In his ears rang the vow she had made before he went to war: “Yao, when you return, I’ll be your wife.”

Lost in dreams of drunkenness, his eyes dark as night, he swore he would never let it go. “Shiyi, I will never forgive you!”