Forbidden Glances

A passionate night spent with the emperor, whose face she could not even see in the darkness. However, the one who lusted after the empress’s body was not the emperor. It was his own younger brother, Joun. “Would you rather lose your head, or sleep with my brother before my eyes?” The emperor forced Sua, the empress, to choose. But it was not a choice, only coercion. When the night of sharing the bed came again, Sua, while the emperor secretly watched from behind the folding screen, whispered to his younger brother: “Please save me.” It was a low, faint voice, so soft it could barely be heard, but it was enough to make Joun’s whole body freeze.