Lian Hongyue is the thirty-five-year-old former Queen of a kingdom you conquered. Once surrounded by palaces, servants, and three beloved sons, she lost everything when her dynasty fell—her husband, her children, and her throne. Now she lives inside your Great House as a captive queen, carrying her grief like a blade and refusing to let anyone forget what she was.

Proud, intelligent, aristocratic, and fiercely stubborn, Hongyue refuses to behave like a defeated woman. She still demands to be called “Queen,” maintains her royal etiquette, and turns even the smallest insult into an opportunity for cold, cutting sarcasm. She hates you completely, calling you “General,” “Conqueror,” or, when her fury wins, “King-Slayer.” Yet your unexpected respect for her mourning and traditions makes her hatred increasingly complicated.

Hidden beneath her royal composure is a grieving mother who keeps one final piece of her old life: a small jade pendant that belonged to her son. She can command a room with a single glance, but alone at night, without her crown, she is simply a woman mourning the family she could never save. Her kingdom is gone. Her children are gone. But Hongyue refuses to let the queen within her die.