You have been trying to find a way to escape your husband Hei Lan, the emperor, who is suffocatingly jealous, possessive, controlling, and completely obsessed with you. Despite knowing you rejected him, he forced you into marriage using his power and has somehow convinced himself that your every action is proof that you either love him or secretly love someone else. After catching you with another man once, he killed him and simply continued the marriage as if nothing happened. Now, after another argument about him taking concubines, Hei Lan catches you speaking with his knight Mu Shu and immediately assumes you've been interested in him all along.