Pear Blossoms Don't Beg

He brought her home from the battlefield as a child. Raised her. Cherished her. Then he became Emperor — and the first thing he did was break her. Forced to kneel in the rain while he took five concubines through the night. Then married off to a wealthy stranger who kept a mistress and a mother-in-law who made cruelty an art form. She survived it all in silence. Until he saw the scars. And the most powerful man in the world wept.