Does Emperor Henry Treat Me Well

This young lady is completely different from what she remembered.

Just one look from her was enough to make your heart race with fear...

"Sierra, do you want to live?" Grace asked.

Sierra's heart pounded wildly: "Of course I do, miss."

"If you want to live, and you want your child to live, then do exactly as I say," Grace said. "Otherwise, one wrong step and you'll be doomed forever!"

The words "doomed forever" sounded like a curse. Sierra's legs buckled and she dropped to her knees: "Please tell me what to do, miss!"

...

The next morning, before dawn, Grace was already up and dressed.

She was wearing the outfit that Grace Wan had sent her.

Grace Wan really did have great taste.

Grace's skin was flawless and pale, her aura ethereal and elegant. In this outfit, she looked absolutely stunning.

Every move she made was graceful and captivating.

Every glance, every smile—she was simply breathtaking.

Hope and Claire, who had just finished dressing her, stared at her in a daze.

Grace looked at them curiously. "What's wrong with you two? Why are you staring at me like that?"

"Miss, you're so beautiful!" Claire said, looking completely lovestruck. "Just gorgeous!"

"Yeah!" Hope agreed, her eyes wide. "Ever since you awakened your spirit root, you've gotten even prettier! If the Emperor sees you, he'll definitely fall for you!"

Hope still didn't know what Grace was really thinking, and kept daydreaming about her miss catching the Emperor's eye.

But Claire knew her miss had no intention of entering the palace, so she quickly shot Hope a warning look: "Hope! Don't say such things! We're just here to celebrate the Empress Dowager's birthday!"

"How am I saying anything wrong?" Hope retorted. "We're going to celebrate the Empress Dowager's birthday, aren't we? Of course we'll see the Emperor! When he sees you, miss, he'll be just as dazzled as we are!"

She got even more fired up as she spoke: "Actually, the Emperor has always been very good to you, miss. It's just that you didn't have a spirit root, so he married the second miss instead. If you had a Celestial Root, with your looks and status, the Empress's title would never have gone to the second miss!"

"You've got a lot to say this early in the morning!" Grace shot Hope a look and walked out.

After all that praise, she got nothing but a side-eye... Hope stared blankly at her miss's retreating figure.

Did she say something wrong?

Grace walked a few steps, then suddenly stopped and turned to Hope. "Hope, do you really think the Emperor is good to me?"

"Of course!" Hope perked up and hurried after her. "The Emperor treats you really well! He never looked down on you just because you didn't have a spirit root. Remember that time Fiona Liu almost pushed you into the moat? He saved you!"

Grace thought about it and realized it was true.

Colin Gu always acted the perfect gentleman around her—kind and considerate.

He had even saved her life.

If not for that... she wouldn't have loved him for over twenty years in her last life.

She fell for him at first sight when she met him at twelve, back when he was still a prince.

For him, she willingly went to the Vermilion Kingdom.

For him, she turned down the Vermilion Emperor's affection, causing the kingdom's downfall.

And it was because of his kindness and warmth that she naively believed Colin Gu loved her too.

During her hardest days in the Vermilion Kingdom, the only thing that kept her going was the hope that, after all the suffering, she could finally be with him.

But in the end, what she got was an imperial decree: her family destroyed, herself burned alive for all to see...