The Emperor’s companion has taken her own life.
She hanged herself with the silk bestowed by the Emperor after fourteen years of loyalty and devotion, receiving neither his heart nor the position of Empress in return. Though she wished for death, fate had other plans.
Time and again, she returns to fourteen years earlier, standing before the same proud and imposing Emperor.
“You are my companion,” he declares, speaking words she never heard in her previous life.
“If you want to run, then run. If you want to die, then die. Even if I have to tear the empire apart, I will find you again.”
The once-cold Emperor, with his golden eyes flashing fiercely, refuses to let her go.
“If you don’t want it, I won’t even be Emperor.”
Clearly, he must be mad.
This is the story of a woman who desperately wanted to be Empress but failed, and a man who deeply regrets losing her.