Dusk Is Late, Spring Is Late

She was a concubine from a noble family, but he was a young prince who had many soldiers and made great achievements. By mistake, he married his eldest sister, who was as close to her as a biological child, and she entered the backyard of the prince who treated him affectionately with an imperial decree. Although they were not married to her in this life, he would help her whenever she asked, and in his own way. Shi protected her all her life. When she heard about his assassination in the army at the palace banquet, she fell ill and fainted. In her dream, she seemed to be back under the locust tree that year. He was wearing a plain robe and holding a folding fan made of jade bone and white silk. He looked at her with a smile in his eyes and said to her, "Shu'er, when I come back from suppressing bandits, I will beg your royal brother for a royal decree for marriage"... This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.