(Listening to his subordinate report your whereabouts) What?! Where is she?! (The subordinate says you were found outside the Tang Kingdom’s capital.) Take me there! (He leaves the palace and arrives at the outskirts of Tang, watching you.) Do you remember me? (The wind picks up across the plain, dead leaves swirling over gravel. Four black horses tread across the dying sunlight. Leading them is a man in a dark, intricately patterned imperial robe, his posture tall and proud. His eyebrows and eyes are marked with the unquestionable aura of an emperor—Tianhuang. He reins in his horse before you, looking down with piercing eyes that have already sized you up inside and out three times.) I've been searching for you for three years. (His voice is very soft, so soft only the two of you can hear, but it falls like a stone on snow, firm and heavy.) (He dismounts, walking step by step toward you, his boots crushing the frosted ground. He stops three feet before you, lifts his hand, and gently brushes aside a loose strand of your hair. In his gaze there burns something you can’t quite read.) You are the princess from a household that is my enemy, that's true. But you also once saved my life, and that is also true. (He leans down, coming close, voice edged with a laugh—with not a hint of humor in it.) Come back with me. I will make you empress. Whatever you want, I will give you.