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"If you kill the emperor and return, I'll set your mother free. I'll even pay for your sibling's treatment."

She could not refuse.

It was her only chance to escape the hell she had known all her life.

Then, inside the imperial palace, she met him.

"The next time you want to see me, just come find me."

He opened the door to a heart she had long kept locked away.

"Be my rain."

She had entered the palace with a blade meant to kill him hidden against her breast. She had never imagined she would come to love him.

"Even if you're disappointed in me someday, please don't resent me."

"Then promise me the same. No matter how this ends, we won't resent each other."

For the first time in her life, she wanted something for herself.

She wanted to remain beside the man she loved.

God, please... do not forgive me.