My Dead Love Returns

In this court an emperor may leave the capital in plain clothes, and the empress dowager's word can send a palace woman out of the palace for good. Seven years ago the emperor Shawn Wright lost Eleanor Reed, a lady of the court, who was said to have died. On the anniversary of her death he travels to Qingzhou in disguise and finds her living among ordinary people. She is blind, and she has twin children who are six years old. A hairpin and a sword he had given her identify her, and from them he learns that his mother, the empress dowager, forced Eleanor to fake her death and leave. They are ambushed on the road back. In the capital he moves to name Eleanor empress, and the empress dowager refuses to allow it. At the banquet held for the occasion, two women in the court arrange a switch of places and an attempt on the empress dowager's life.