The Emperor's Regret

Synopsis:

On the day Shaoyin returned to the capital after being widowed, nearly everyone in the capital believed she had come back for the current emperor, Xiao Heng.

Everyone knew that Xue Shaoyin, the Empress's niece, had been infatuated with her maternal cousin, Crown Prince Xiao Heng, since childhood. They also knew that while she loved him, he had never returned her feelings. It was said that when the Crown Prince reached marriageable age, he personally removed Xue Shaoyin's name from the list of marriage candidates. Shaoyin threw a fit over it, ultimately enraging Emperor Chengzong, who ordered her to marry into a distant land and sent the clingy nuisance away for his son.

Five years later, the Crown Prince Xiao Heng had already been enthroned for several years, while Xue Shaoyin, who had been married off far away, had become a widow. When she returned to her homeland after her husband's death, everyone assumed she would continue pestering Xiao Heng as she had in the past. The noble ladies competing for the position of Empress also regarded her as a formidable threat.

Yet almost no one knew that Shaoyin had been the one to request the distant marriage. By the time Xiao Heng personally crossed out her name in front of her, there had not been even the slightest place for him left in her heart. Now, her heart belonged only to her late husband.

In truth, it was the emperor secluded deep within the palace who had finally come to his senses and regretted everything night after night. Emperor Xiao Heng believed that Shaoyin's return could restore everything to the way it had been, never realizing that she already had an eternal white moonlight in her heart.

Even as the Son of Heaven, there were things beyond his reach. In this world, no one could ever defeat a dead man in love.

[The emperor grovels after losing his wife; the male lead's harem is merely for show, while the female lead's marriage to her late husband was a real marriage.]