iluvnothing23
Two emperors. One war. A wound that never heals.
On opposite ends of a fractured empire, Emperor Shi Qiqiang and Emperor Hou Huiling rule with fire and steel-sworn enemies whose names alone shake the mountains.
When Shi Qiqiang rides into battle, it is with pride, with vengeance, and the weight of his people on his shoulders. But Hou Huiling is not a man who leaves loose ends.
Ambushed. Defeated. Left to die beneath a sky stained red, Shi Qiqiang should have perished.
And yet-he lives.
Haunted by nightmares, shattered by pain, and forced to crawl back from the edge of death, Shi Qiqiang must now learn to walk again-not only on broken bones, but on shattered pride.
But as he rebuilds quietly in the shadows, a question begins to burn deep within him:
Why does the face of his enemy linger in his dreams? And why does the fire in his chest still burn, not with hatred-but something far more dangerous?
He lost everything to Hou Huiling. So why does his heart still tremble at the memory of him?