The Bite Mark the Face-Blind Emperor Kept

Synopsis

Su Qinghuan has been empress for three years, and the emperor still asks her to carry a message to the empress. Ling Yao is face blind. He courts her in the garden, at the stables, at a temple fair outside the palace walls, and never once knows who she is. It is a comfortable life: an empty harem, no rivals, and morning greetings she pays to herself. Then she gives him a false name to get out of an awkward moment, and the emperor sets his whole heart on a commoner widow who does not exist.