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A thousand years ago, after the Great War in the Xuanwu Abyss, Feng Tianyi-the divine beast-suffered severe injuries that did not heal even after a millennium. As a result, the Extranatural Heaven decided to send her to the mortal realm to undergo a tribulation and experience human hardship.
Upon descending to the human realm and taking on a mortal form, she lost all her divine powers, retaining only her memories and her divine artifact.
She was born into the noble Gu family and named Gu FengYi, where she acquired extensive knowledge and became involved in political affairs. In the early part of her mortal life, she resolved to create a prosperous era for the people. To achieve this, she married the emperor and became the reigning empress.
She helped the people and established reforms that resulted in a more stable and prosperous empire. Corruption was gradually suppressed, famine became less frequent, and the lives of the common people steadily improved under her guidance.
But peace like that never lasts forever.
Years later, a young man named Zheng Hu Xue arrived at the imperial court. He was a talented scholar with a promising future. He was not born of privilege, nor did he carry any notable lineage. He survived due to the help of the empress years ago, he never forgot that kindness and he struggle to enter the court just to repay it.
But when he finally stood before her again, Fengyi treated him like a stranger.
Cold. Distant. Unreachable.
He didn't understand why.
What began as gratitude slowly twisted into obsession. He convinced himself that only he could understand her. That only he was worthy of standing beside her.
And so, beneath the silence of the imperial court, a quiet devotion was born-one that would slowly ruin the fate of both the empire and the divine beast who had once saved it.