Conquer the World: The Empress Refuses His Love

I thought you wanted the world, so I went to great lengths to seize it for you. Only later did I learn that the world meant nothing to you. You used everyone around you who could be of use, including me, all to escape that person's control. The world knows only that you took a commoner's daughter as your secondary consort just three days after marrying me. They do not know that it was all part of a scheme you staged for everyone to see. I thought you had never loved me, so I hurt you without mercy. Only after you shed that exalted imperial robe did I realize that you, so unfathomably deep, were also so fragile. If everything could return to the beginning, and beneath the cherry blossoms that year you asked whether I would bear you a child, I would nod with all my strength, then share the world with you.

After the Flowers, Hua Luoyan.

She was the beloved eldest princess of Dali, second only to the ruler and above all others: The Outcast.

She was also the nine-tailed fox of legend, the one chosen by fate.

She married the Prince of Huadu, but just three days later, he took a commoner's daughter as his secondary consort.

With a dance beneath the city walls, she subdued an army of four hundred thousand.

She was the fated woman adored by all, once the most beautiful eldest princess of Dali: Hua Luoyan.

She was also the legendary Emperor Ming, whose name would live through the ages.

The benevolent father in everyone's eyes was, in truth, the executioner who most wanted her dead. The prince she married took a secondary consort just three days later. Poisoned and framed, all she wanted was to live out her days in peace, yet every step was fraught with hardship, and escape seemed impossible.

In the grand hall of the Great Hero, dressed in bloodstained robes, she laughed like a madwoman. “If I, Hua Luoyan, do not die, I will repay you a hundredfold for every agony you have made me suffer!”