Stars dotted the night sky, stirring an inexplicable sense of sorrow and desolation.
Tonight was destined to be a hard battle...
Jiang Mingyang felt grief and indignation. His body was already so numb, yet he still had to please a shortsighted woman who devoured him down to the marrow. It simply wasn't worth it!
Was power really so alluring? To think he would stop at nothing for it... The price of gaining power was far too high!
Jiang Mingyang tidied himself up and hurried toward the Heaven Dou Empire's Imperial Palace with a sorrowful smile.
Mingde Hall.
Qian Renxue sat on the Dragon Throne, working hard to handle state affairs.
Qian Renxue knew perfectly well that the coming failure to suppress the rebellion would determine whether she could return openly to Jiang Mingyang's side.
She would no longer return as emperor, but as the granddaughter of Qian Daoliu, former pope of Spirit Hall and current grand elder of the Worship Hall.
But the standing she returned with mattered greatly. She couldn't simply go back like this, could she?
After thinking it over again and again, Qian Renxue decided she had to leave a few "clues."
Once she returned to Jiang Mingyang's side as a woman, those "clues" would let people faintly guess that she was Emperor "Xue Qinghe."
The benefit of doing so was obvious:
It would all but cement Qian Renxue's absolute standing among all the women in Jiang Mingyang's life.
Qian Renxue had always been gentle yet strong-willed. Her generous heart had room for those other women.
But after giving up fifteen years undercover and surrendering her identity as emperor for Jiang Mingyang, Qian Renxue would never allow herself to return to his side as a mere woman only to have one of them dare challenge her rightful