Empress Xue

The Xue family helped him ascend the throne, asking only that he marry her.

Yet in the year since their wedding, he had never once entered her chambers.

Then, one day, he announced to the world that he was taking her chronically ill younger sister into his harem.

She thought they would never meet again in this life, but to her surprise, he changed his ways and began treating her with tenderness.

Was it the revenge of an emperor?

Or was this the calamity the Xue family was destined to face?

She said she would never hate him, but she could not overcome all the grievances that had piled up, one after another.

Her little boat sailed away, leaving her to spend the rest of her days amid the rivers and seas.

They had met because of those words, and in the end, she realized that all she had ever wanted was a conclusion just like this.