The Defiant Imperial Daughter: Netherworld Emperor, You've Lost My Favor!

It was all part of a scheme. The woman he loved was pregnant and waiting for him to come home at the prince's residence, while the woman he found most irksome had been whipped until she was barely alive. “Your Highness, hurry and see the Princess Consort one last time!” “She is not the Princess Consort,” he replied calmly. “Even if the Princess Consort's identity is false, there's no way the four-month-old baby could be!” Crack! The white jade cup shattered in his grasp. He ran out the door like a madman... Afterward, year after year, he waited in the underworld for her soul. The woman who had supposedly died from the whipping appeared before him alive and well. He wrapped one arm around her waist and buried his face in the crook of her neck. The man who had once dominated the world now clung to her in a painfully humble embrace, his voice choking with emotion. “My love, why did you take so long to come?”