Summary
The Emperor killed everyone in the harem. When my turn came, he stared at my face in a daze for a long, long time. At last, he asked me, “Be my wife, or be the maid who scrubs chamber pots. “Which do you choose?” In my previous life, I chose to be his wife. And he loved me with the utmost tenderness for five years-until the day he met my twin sister. Only when he saw the little mole on the tip of her nose did he finally realize he had loved the wrong person all along. Later, when I was poisoned with an aphrodisiac and begged him to help me, he pushed me toward his friends instead. “Go beg Huaizhang and Cangyun.” The night I died in agony, he and my sister were lost in passion. Now, I had been given another life. Faced with the Emperor’s gentle question, I said calmly, “I choose to be the maid.” The Emperor froze. “Why?” I pretended to be shy. “Because I’ve had a secret crush on Lord Cangyun.”