Wandering into the Spring Tent

Wen Lingxi and Xie Guhong, heir to the Marquis of Yongchang, grew up together. When he became gravely ill, she married him without hesitation to bring him good fortune. Once his health returned, he led his troops into battle. Wen Lingxi stayed behind for three years, caring for her mother-in-law, covering the household's debts, and managing everything at home. At last, her husband returned in triumph, only to bring back a female general and ask to take her as his secondary wife, citing her military achievements.

After enduring such humiliation, Wen Lingxi sets her sights on the man on the imperial throne, a tyrant who has no interest in women and whose moods are impossible to predict.

At first, the arrogant tyrant warns her coldly, "I only consider you a sleeping draught. Don't get any ideas about me."

Later, love-struck and obsessed with her, he keeps her confined to their bedchamber, his eyes bloodshot and his voice hoarse. "My lady, when will you divorce your husband?"

Xie Guhong thinks Wen Lingxi's talk of divorce is just a ploy to make him chase her.

He assumes that once they're divorced, Wen Lingxi won't marry anyone else. She's only throwing a fit and will come back to beg him sooner or later.

Later, he watches as his wife is escorted into the palace in a grand wedding procession stretching ten miles.

The current emperor wraps an intensely possessive arm around her. "My dear subject, you are forbidden to look directly at my empress."