One Thousand and One Nights, Volume 8 by Jeon JinSeok
book 19: One Thousand and One Nights, Volume 8 by Jeon JinSeok
Sehara has left Shahryar behind to travel to Jerusalem with the Crusaders in exchange for the lives of his loved ones. Ali forgives Shahryar for murdering his beloved after realizing that he did nothing to protect her from her fate, and he urges Shahryar to pursue Sehara if he values him. Shahryar sets out to retake Jerusalem and free Sehara, but somehow ends up stranded and weakened in the desert alone where his adulterous wife Fatima finds him, intending to gloat over his looming death. Shahryar asks her to tell him her story, and he learns of her family's destruction at the hands of the sultan's forces and her subsequent sale into slavery and prostitution at a young age. Once purchased by Shahryar's father, she met Shazaman, Shahryar's younger brother, who taught her how to manipulate the sultan and murder him, wanting revenge for Fatima and for himself because he felt slighted by his father's preference for Shahryar and blamed them both for his mother's murder. Fatima claims Shazaman is the only man she has ever loved and would do anything for him, including enduring further abuses so she can kill Shahryar and make way for Shazaman to become sultan.
Sehara has left Shahryar behind to travel to Jerusalem with the Crusaders in exchange for the lives of his loved ones. Ali forgives Shahryar for murdering his beloved after realizing that he did nothing to protect her from her fate, and he urges Shahryar to pursue Sehara if he values him. Shahryar sets out to retake Jerusalem and free Sehara, but somehow ends up stranded and weakened in the desert alone where his adulterous wife Fatima finds him, intending to gloat over his looming death. Shahryar asks her to tell him her story, and he learns of her family's destruction at the hands of the sultan's forces and her subsequent sale into slavery and prostitution at a young age. Once purchased by Shahryar's father, she met Shazaman, Shahryar's younger brother, who taught her how to manipulate the sultan and murder him, wanting revenge for Fatima and for himself because he felt slighted by his father's preference for Shahryar and blamed them both for his mother's murder. Fatima claims Shazaman is the only man she has ever loved and would do anything for him, including enduring further abuses so she can kill Shahryar and make way for Shazaman to become sultan.