Heaven-Defying Imperial Daughter: Dark Emperor, You've Fallen Out of Favor!

It was all part of a plot. The woman he loved was heavily pregnant, waiting for him to return home at the prince's manor, while the woman he could hardly stand had been whipped until she was on the verge of death. “Your Highness, hurry and see the Princess Consort one last time!” “She is not the Princess Consort,” he said calmly. “Even if the Princess Consort is an impostor, there is no way the four-month-old baby could be!” Crack! The white jade cup shattered in his grip. He ran out the door like a madman... Afterward, year after year, he waited in the underworld for her soul. The woman who had supposedly died from the whipping stood before him, alive and well. He wrapped one arm around her waist and buried his face in the crook of her neck. The man who had once commanded the world now held her tightly in his arms with the utmost humility, unable to hold back his choked sobs. “Wife, why did you take so long to come?”