Nan Yu had just turned twenty when she became empress dowager. With the young heir still a child and the nation in decline, she urgently needed a powerful, domineering patron to back her up. Xiao Yiquan, a scheming court official, beckoned her over with a finger. “Little empress dowager, what do you think of me?” Nan Yu tilted up her breathtakingly beautiful face and knelt at the man’s boots. “As long as I behave, will you give me anything I want?” Later, she really did behave herself, behaving so well that she repaid every humiliation she had suffered in her previous life, and even kicked Xiao Yiquan off the city tower! By then, the man had long since been whittled down into a lovesick puppy. Covered in blood, he still ingratiatingly kissed the tips of her toes. “Yu’er, don’t be like this.”, I long to soar into the azure sky, but he only craves the fragrance beneath the bed curtains.
