The fourth Miss of the Tang family, born to a distinguished house. General Xun, a rising star.
Though they fell in love with each other, fate and circumstance kept them from spending their lives together.
Eight-year-old Tang Mingyue first met thirteen-year-old Xun Ji over a plum blossom. “The plum blossoms are lovely, but the moon is lovelier.”
Back then, Tang Mingyue was like a beam of light, illuminating Xun Ji’s bleak life.
Thirteen-year-old Tang Mingyue met eighteen-year-old Xun Ji again. At last, he saw the girl he had long yearned for, but she no longer remembered him.
“It doesn’t matter. Miss Tang Si is wonderful. It’s enough that I love her.”
Fifteen-year-old Tang Mingyue and twenty-year-old Xun Ji fell in love.
“When I return victorious, I’ll send the betrothal gifts and bring you home in a grand bridal sedan.”
“Then I’ll await your good news. Please don’t break your promise, my lord.”
Seventeen-year-old Tang Mingyue and twenty-two-year-old Xun Ji.
“The moon hangs high, yet its light never reaches me.”
“You are already someone’s husband, and I am another man’s wife.”
Their love burned like wildfire. At fifteen, she secretly pledged herself to him; at twenty, he promised her a phoenix crown and embroidered robes. But the flames of war, the shackles of family rank, and an emperor’s schemes ultimately crushed the vows they made in their youth.
