The Emperor's Heart Is Unfathomable: My Empress Will Reign for a Thousand Years

I was named Changting, a name that meant I was destined to spend my whole life watching people part and leave, watching them treat me as nothing but a ferry crossing, never a place to return to. “I hate you. I hate you for killing my father and wiping out my entire family. I hate you for disfiguring me and burning my body. I hate you for killing me, then falling in love with a woman who has the same face as me. I hate you for casting my whole heart aside like a worn-out shoe and grinding it beneath your feet. I hate you for ultimately forgetting me.” “Why, Miss, do you believe that people can shape their own fate?” “Because all love and hate in this world have their causes and consequences. Because love is ultimately no more than sand blown away by the wind. Because people all sing the praises of undying devotion, yet turn around and sneer at it as an empty promise.”