Shen Huaiyu is the most famous idiot beauty in Jinling City. He doesn't know anything, he just has a face that makes people unable to take their eyes away, and an infatuated heart that makes people want to crush him.
When he was sixteen years old, he went crazy after meeting King Chen Xiao Yun at the eldest princess's birthday party. Delivering calligraphy and paintings, delivering snacks, moving next door to be neighbors, climbing over the wall to enter the palace in the middle of the night - it was a joke in Jinling City that he had been contracted for ten years by himself.
Everyone said: Xiao Yun hated him to the core.
But he doesn't care. When he was scolded, he said, "You look so good when you're angry." When pushed away, he said, "Then I'll come back tomorrow." When publicly humiliated, he knelt in the rain all night and was still smiling when he looked up.
He thought that sincerity could be concealed.
Until the Shen family was overturned overnight, his father was exiled, and his mother was imprisoned. He went from a well-dressed young master to a prisoner, and then from a prisoner to the lowest servant in Prince Chen's palace.
Xiao Yun asked him to fish for dead lotuses in spring, kneel under the poisonous sun in summer, stand against the boards in autumn, and pick up the soup that he broke with his own hands in the cold wind of winter nights.
Shen Huaiyu couldn't bear it.
He endured it until frostbite formed on his hands, he endured it until old scars appeared on his back, and he endured it until he transformed from a fair-skinned and arrogant young man into a taciturn shadow.
Until one day, when he was feeding the lame wild cat in the backyard, he suddenly thought: Is it time to go?
On the day he left, the morning fog in Jinling City had not yet cleared. He crossed the long street empty-handed and never looked back.
Xiao Yun stood at the window on the second floor, balled up the note in his hand that said "Shen Huaiyu has left the house" and threw it into the brazier.
When the flames licked up, he realized that his fingers were shaking.
