"You are the gift Qiu Zhenyu sent me in place of his head. Did your father not tell you to obey me?" Xiang Ye flicked his jade fan and stripped away the empress's phoenix robe.
"Grandmother said the daughters of the Qiu family need not obey anyone." Min'er looked up at the king who had arrived drenched in blood, not a trace of fear in her eyes.
On their wedding night, the emperor held another woman as he slept. Yet his neglect, humiliation, and oppression, all the hatred he directed at her, could not affect this woman. Until the day Xiang Ye saw Min'er smile at another man.
