The White-Haired Empress

This is a story of past and present lives, of love begun and love ended. It seems fate had long since decided everything, and no one had any say in it.

She resolutely ended her own life, only for her soul to travel back to her past life. Though she was in the flower of her youth, her hair had turned white.

She prolonged “her” life, helped “her” give birth to a child, and had to live as “her.” And then, in the dead of night...

Four years later, unable to bear “her” ghostly wails any longer,

she returned to the imperial capital to find the faithless man. When she saw him, she was utterly dumbfounded.

As for him, watching her transform like a butterfly emerging from flames, his heart grew unbearably heavy.

On the second day after returning to the palace, he threatened her with their daughter’s life, crippled her inner strength, planted a parasite in her body, and forced her to marry into another kingdom as a princess. Officially, she was there to cement an alliance through marriage; in secret, she was to help him conquer the Cangqiong Kingdom.

Once again she wore a bridal gown, with a procession of dowry stretching ten miles, vast as the sea.

Two marriages, four people entangled.

Was it a good match gone wrong, or had the wrong people come together?

The king was to wed the princess sent to cement the alliance.

Envoys arrived from every quarter to offer congratulations. The court officials gathered, and the emperor came in person.

Salutes boomed, horns blared, and all under heaven rejoiced.

When he saw one large and one small figure leap down from the carriage, his features froze and he stood stunned. A flicker of shock passed through his eyes before they settled into calm. “How did an extra little brat get here?”

“She’s my daughter, part of my dowry.” Stroking her daughter’s head, she answered calmly in front of everyone.

After the wedding rites, he took her hand, not to spend their lives together, but to cruelly break it.

In both her past and present lives, the person she truly loved was never the person she married.