Why Boil Away the Years in Longing?

Everyone believed that Zhu Qingtan would be the future Crown Princess, including Zhu Qingtan herself. So for more than a decade, she had lived her life by the standards expected of a Crown Princess.

The war at the front raged on, and the Crown Prince had to go to the battlefield in person. Before leaving, Ji Shuo promised Zhu Qingtan that he would marry her when he returned, and that from then on, they would be together for the rest of their lives.

But when Ji Shuo came back, he brought an orphan girl with him. He said, “I’m sorry.”

Zhu Qingtan never wore the wedding robes of a Crown Princess. Instead, she wore the ceremonial dress of a princess sent away to secure a marriage alliance.

From then on, you and I would gaze at each other across the river, strangers to one another’s lives.