Introduction to the novel
In the 19th year of the Republic of China, heavy snow closed the mountains in Huizhou, which also blocked Zijin's way of life - she was sold to the Bai family as a maid by her biological father for twenty yuan. I thought it was hard labor in the dark, but I met Bai Jin, who has white mink hair and clear eyebrows. Bai Jin corrected her name as "Zijin", taught her how to read, and gave her warmth. In the study room where the charcoal fire was burning, she said "Qingqing Zijin, linger in my heart", which ignited the passionate passion between the two of them that transcends master and servant and is unparalleled in the world.
The whispers in the plum garden, the side by side in the study late at night, and the promise to stay together in Huangshan have become the warmest light in troubled times. But the cold winter of the Republic of China could not tolerate forbidden love. The Bai family's furious obstruction and the pressure of forced marriage eventually crushed this relationship into dust. The sedan chair went away, the war spread, and the Bai Mansion was reduced to ruins. Zijin, carrying the embroidered handkerchief and jade pendant, found Bai Jin in her wedding dress in the city of Nanjing where corpses were everywhere.
The heavy snow buried the artillery fire and bloodstains, as well as the two embracing souls. That ancient poem has become the epitaph of their love in troubled times. In the wind and snow of Huizhou, it tells a deep love that has been crushed by the times.
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.
