Everyone knows Song Yuehua as a quick-witted, eloquent, lively, and cheerful woman.
Gu Sijia is a notorious dandy in the capital, a playboy who loves gambling and has no ambition.
A book brings together two people from different eras, with different ways of thinking and living. They come to know and understand each other.
He is exactly the kind of man she despises, and she is nothing like the ideal beauty he has imagined. One declares he will never marry, the other that she will never wed, and soon the whole capital knows about it.
Who could have expected that after she went through two betrothals, thinking she would marry the man of her dreams, an imperial edict would shatter her hopes?
In just three years, he goes from a carefree playboy with flowing hair to a general clad in armor, trading music and flute-playing for horses and swords. The capital’s former dandy becomes a young general.
Every teahouse in the capital sings a little tune:
Young Master Gu, a dashing young dandy, ties up his hair and takes up arms for love.
He wins battlefield honors and petitions the throne for his beloved, then joyfully heads to the bridal chamber.
But on their auspicious wedding day, the groom dons his armor and rides off to war, leaving his bride alone in plain clothes to keep the empty room.
“Gu Sijia, tell me: this past year, have you missed home as much as your name suggests?”
“Yuehua, I’m home.”
