Elijah Croft was an empress who had everything… except for a loving husband. Though she was used to the emperor’s coldness, the reappearance of his former lover proves to be the last straw… and she finally asks for a divorce. However, Elijah soon realizes that escaping the political and social machinations of her former life isn’t going to be as easy as she thought. Can this former empress make a new life for herself and her unborn child? Or is she destined to be tied to the emperor forever?