At their first meeting, she sat upright in the study, his soft-spoken “junior brother.”
When they met again, she sat upright in the bridal chamber, the new concubine his family had brought into the household.
At last, he boldly confessed his feelings. She smiled sweetly. “My heart belongs to your sworn father. I’ll spend my life at Qingfeng Stockade as a bandit woman, and never think of anything else.”
Furious, he left home. After several years, he finally placed first in the imperial examinations and held his head high.
The top scholar was ordered to suppress the bandits. Before the Hall of Might and Majesty, his gaze was as sharp as a cold blade.
Yao Yunxi asked softly, “May I ask, Your Excellency, who is the bandit here?”
Song Xingqiao’s eyes immediately reddened. “You invaded my heart, taking territory inch by inch. You’ve been domineering there for so long that there’s no room in my heart for another woman. Tell me, who’s the bandit?”
“If that’s the case, then Yunxi should accept her punishment. I leave myself to your judgment.”
The moment she lowered her eyes, he was utterly defeated.
From then on, he found joy in her lowered gaze, and their love never went unreturned.
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