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Sri Lanka was ruled by kings and never by emperors. But the protagonist is this story is a licentious emperor. On a sudden impulse, he leaves the palace, and during his wanderings, he is beaten by a villager and injured. He meets a girl who has the plague, living in a travelers' rest. she directs him to a native medical practitioner. There he meets the rebel who is leading a rebellion against the emperor. The medical practitioner is killed by as a traitor for treating the rebel by the emperor's soldiers.
The emperor, his injuries now healed, returns to the traveler's rest, shaken by the atrocities conducted in his name. He leaves with the girl to a distant village. There a village boy falls in love with the girl, but she only loves the emperor. The boy, jealous and bitter, kills the emperor during a battle between the soldiers and the rebels.