Heartless Empress

Now published under the title "My Heart Belongs to You: Ink Stains a Thousand Cities". Available from Dangdang: http://product.dangdang.com/24100258.html

Tenderness and cruelty at their extremes: what could compare?

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She is the General’s Manor’s third young lady, as well as the finest perfumer at the Imperial Fragrance Workshop. She has a mission of her own.

He is the fourth prince of Xicang, and the emperor’s least ambitious son. He has secrets of his own.

Because he looks like the man she loves, she throws herself headlong into his life.

He is aloof; she is devoted.

She helps him and supports him, even though she knows his heart belongs to someone else.

He dotes on her and indulges her, but never gives her his heart.

After an accident while blending fragrances, she loses consciousness and shares an unexpected night with a mysterious man.

A month later, she discovers she is pregnant!

How can she be expecting a child when nothing ever happened?

She is terrified and at a loss, but he merely parts his thin lips and says, as calmly as still waters, “Apart from you and me, who else knows he isn’t my child?”

Is this his affection, or his indifference? A gift, or the beginning of a plot?

Su Mochen? Sikong Wei?

Who is a substitute for whom?

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In the end, she is held back before the three armies. She reaches out to him, but an arrow pierces her heart instead.

He watches from afar, his tall figure utterly still, not a flicker of emotion in his deep, dark eyes.

She smiles, a smile capable of bringing a kingdom to its knees. “Su Mochen, in our past life you fed me your blood. In this life, I’ll repay you with mine!”

As her words fall, she raises her hand and drives the arrow lodged in her chest even deeper, straight through her body. Blood pours out in a torrent...