Ten Years Apart Beneath the Snow

She paused and looked at Yan Jingchen, who still had his head bowed. Her voice softened a little. “You don’t deserve to be treated like this.”

When she first met him, he was a lowly hostage, while she was a noble lady above the clouds.

Later, he became a regent with power over the court, yet searched everywhere for the woman he couldn’t forget.

Later still, he was willing to give up everything just to spend his life with her.

Yan Jingchen jolted.

Her words seemed to carry warmth, piercing the bitter cold and striking his heart. He raised his head without thinking.

A ray of sunlight slipped through the clouds and fell on her face. Her skin was very fair, and a few snowflakes clung to her eyelashes. In the light, they looked like scattered diamonds. Her eyes were brightest of all. When she smiled, they curved like crescents, as if holding the warmest light of the twelfth lunar month.

In that moment, it seemed as if the snowstorm all around them had stopped.