I will fall with the emperor

After looking back on a painful past, a woman wonders whether accepting an emperor’s offer to become his empress would have let her live longer. The question takes on new meaning when she returns ten years into the past and finds herself standing beside him again. There, she realizes that the emperor fell alongside her. They were much alike, and that resemblance is why he reached out to her. She is left to consider what might have happened if she had accepted his offer—and what their shared fall means now that they meet again.