The Broken Crown

The heartbroken princess consort wished only to end her life as soon as possible. She climbed the hundred-meter-high city tower and without hesitation, leaped off. It turned out that just three months earlier, the cunning concubine, in her bid to take the position of the principal consort, had deliberately fallen into the water and falsely accused the princess consort of pushing her in. The blind and foolish prince, without seeking the truth, chose to believe only the concubine's words. He ignored his wife's explanations, had her arrested, ordered her to be beaten with a hundred military rods, and finally locked her in the woodshed. The scheming concubine followed her in...