1 Intro

Intro: Today is the day I let that wretched woman into my palace. She will be this one's wife. The empress, the mother of my country. If it wasn't for that time when my half-brother made a pact with an enemy country and tried to take the throne from my sickly father, I would've never run into the house of Prime Minister Ying and made this pact with him. We made a deal that he will help me sit on the throne. In return I have to crown his useless and dimwitted daughter as my empress. I have never met her but hearing all those stories I have heard she isn't much to my liking. I just heard that she was one who does not stand out. One of my close friend the son of Duke Kang's 2nd eldest son has seen her once at a banquet and he had said the she wasn't much too look at. Her looks were ordinary, and she had no talent. She was very ordinary is what was used to describe her. It will be very hard for her to find any husband at all. The Prime Minister knows these reasons but hearing that he dotes on her a lot he probably took an advantage of me when I was at my lowest. I don't mind having her as one my wives, but she cannot be Zhen's Empress. That old man had pressure me into taking her in. Half of the courts are in his favor. One of my subject should not have this much power. If I marry his granddaughter the Ying clan blood will run in the main royal bloodline. I cannot make the same mistake as my father. I have to balance the powers within the court. The old man will use his great grandchild to threaten me! But no matter how I refute, he was still too powerful for me to take down. Now I am here waiting for my future empress.

In the end I have come to a conclusion that I will take this chance to strike back. She will be a double edge sword. She may get him power, but she is also a hostage of the Ying clan. I took it upon me and accepted the proposal.