Your Majesty, Don't Torture Me! I'm Taking Our Child and Running

[Sweet and angsty romance] [Palace intrigue] The cold emperor who can have no heirs vs. the sweet beauty who conceives easily

The emperor has no heirs, so the palace recruits women from among the common people. The first thirteen all die.

A Man is the fourteenth.

She fears the emperor. At night, he gives her no rest, and by day, he makes her kneel and pray with him for his beloved empress to bear a child.

Later, the empress has a child, and A Man leaves the palace. But the tyrant goes mad searching for her, and his hair turns white overnight.

“Did I ever say you could leave?”