The Evil Lord's Exclusive Favor: The Deflowered Consort

She had thought their love surpassed everything; she had thought his love for her was unparalleled, never imagining that his love was not even as important as a thin membrane. He had gone through countless hardships to extract the Water Spirit Pearl from within her, all for the sake of being with her—who could have known that she had long since lost the most precious thing a woman possesses, and had long since betrayed him. Only later did she understand what it meant for a ruler's heart to be unpredictable, what it meant for the palace gates to lead to a depth as vast as the four seas, and what it meant to feel the heartache of being used. For everything—the way he said he loved her—was merely so that he could obtain the Water Spirit Pearl within her body...