The Emperor's Ordeal: Entangled Through Three Lifetimes

Nishang is a woman. That is the identity she must now assume. She first met Zong Yan Shao Jue in a brothel. He forced her to be the one to break off their engagement, sipping tea as he watched his men violate her. He wanted her to end the engagement, but when his uncle came to take her away, he insisted on marrying her instead. She became their prey. By imperial decree, she was forced onto the battlefield, where her life was left to fate. When she returned a year later, another storm of blood and violence awaited her. He cast aside the bonds of brotherhood, first forcing her into marriage, then imprisoning her. She was his prey, kept by his side not out of love, but for his amusement. On her wedding day, another woman sat in the bridal sedan in her place and went through the wedding rites with him. On their wedding night, she was abducted. In a dilapidated thatched hut, her clothes were torn to shreds. That day, a man in black broke into her chambers. Her life was lit up once more, only for fate to toy with her again. Just as Zong Yan Shao Jue was about to sell Nishang to a brothel, he unexpectedly discovered she was pregnant. He looked at her with contempt, yet remained determined to make her abort the child and sell her to the brothel. Four years later, when he saw her again, she was already nestled beside another man, with a little boy at her side calling her Mother. He could not accept it. He was consumed by rage and swore to capture her alive. He would even bear the guilt of murdering his elder brother and father if it meant keeping her imprisoned in a dungeon for the rest of her life. As the flowers bloomed and withered, she finally realized that the love she had given so deeply had become a conspiracy. Its layers upon layers made it impossible to tell truth from lies. At last, she reclaimed her male identity and stood atop the emperor's towering city wall. In that moment, he was forced by the crowd to kneel at her feet…