Step by Step, the Heart-Devouring Empress

She was breathtakingly beautiful and exceptionally clever, hailed as Kyoto's foremost talented woman. She once rejected the Crown Prince's proposal in front of everyone, all for the man she loved.

He was charming, devilishly handsome, and hailed as the most exceptional man in Kyoto. Yet he could never win the heart of the woman he loved.

There was no love between them. Their marriage was an alliance bound by mutual interests. He told her, "Wanxi, I can give you anything but my heart."

But later, he realized that somehow he had already been poisoned by her, the venom eating at his heart and corroding his bones, with no cure in sight.