Chapter 8

Xie Yu left quietly.

After a gust of wind, the yellow sand showed no trace of his presence.

Ze'er earnestly asked me, "Will mother ever think of father again?"

I gently shook my head. To Xie Yu, I am without guilt, and it's long past time to restart my own life.

"From now on, the winds and sands of the Great Desert, Ze'er will shield you from them."

Luckily, Ze'er is not like his father.

The tribe's totems walked across the endless Great Desert.

I gradually became a legendary lady of the desert.

I thought that Xie Yu and I would never have any intersection again, but unexpectedly, I learned news of Xie Yu from merchants coming from the Capital.

"Did you hear? Because the Emperor insisted on deposing the Empress, the Empress unwillingly drowned, leading to premature birth!"

"No wonder they say being close to the Emperor is like being close to a tiger. How long has this Empress been crowned? Only to be deposed now..."