That woman had skin as luminous and white as snow, her hair adorned with mermaid pearls, a speck of gold-foil floral ornament between her brows, her eyes veiled with mist. She wore a rainbow feather robe, her feet untouched by dust.
Her immortal beauty shone bright as the clear moon. Amid that cold elegance, however, there was a faint trace of self-pity, as though she were lamenting her own fate and pitying her lonely reflection.
This woman was named Yu Liuli. She had once come from a force in the Great Thousand World known as Xueyao Palace. Later, she received the War Emperor's "favor," and from then on followed at his side.
Rumor had it that the beauties in the War Emperor's harem all admired his dragonlike bearing and phoenixlike features and willingly followed him. But sometimes, rumors could not represent the whole truth.
The women of Divine Maiden Palace were not all like Fei Yan and Ling Long, who worshiped the Western Heaven War Emperor to the extreme. Among them were some beauties who had only yielded themselves to the War Emperor out of helplessness.
Yu Liuli was such a woman. She had once caught the War Emperor's eye, and with a single decree, he had conferred upon her the title of "Saintess." Xueyao Palace was weak; before the War Emperor, how could it ever have had the right to refuse?
Moreover, some people would have dearly loved the chance to form ties with a Heavenly Sovereign whose potential was like a dragon's. They would have been overjoyed before anything else.
Joining the War Emperor's command seemed wonderful in every possible way, but from then on, she had to live within Divine Maiden Palace and become someone else's possession. No matter how lavish and magnificent the palace was, how