The Emperor’s Favor

Sansan enters the palace to congratulate his younger sister, a concubine, on her pregnancy, and unluckily catches the Emperor’s eye. “A face that cannot live an ordinary life anywhere. What is your name?” “S-Sansan.” “Unless I order otherwise, do not hide your face from me.” On a fresh spring day, the Emperor’s heart is stolen by Sansan standing beneath the pear blossom tree. When the Emperor learns that Sansan, who is slightly lacking compared to others, was born a eunuch, he personally confirms Sansan’s pale lower body right then and there. “Since I have laid eyes on it once, from now on you must not show your lower body to anyone else. Do you understand?” Every night Sansan receives the Emperor’s favor, but since entering the palace, each day feels like being dead even while alive. Then, when death finally approaches before his eyes, he is no longer afraid of the Emperor. “Your Majesty, why did you do this to me?… I really, really hate you.” With those words he would regret even in death if left unsaid, Sansan finally loses consciousness, and the Emperor, unable to accept Sansan’s death, forcibly turns back time… You wretched, pretty thing. Stay by my side forever.