When the aftertaste seems bitter, believe that everything will eventually leave a sweet aftertaste.
Murong Jin kept his harem empty in memory of his late wife, Meilin. But then he met Ming Shu, a traveling doctor who looked just like her, and his heart was shaken. As they fought the Gu poison side by side in Mozhou, he fell for Ming Shu without realizing it, until he could no longer tell his departed wife apart from the woman before him. To escape the suffocating loneliness of the palace, he fled to Mozhou once more and spent a passionate night with Ming Shu, only to leave without a word. He was plunged into a deep inner turmoil. What he did not know was that Meilin had long ago left him a final message: “May your heart find someone to belong to, so you are never alone.” From on high, she blessed him: spring flowers would surely burn away the depths of winter, and new life would slowly return…
