If Hu Shanxiang chose to die after Yao Zijin left,
would Zhu Zhanji regret it?
She did not share many of her innermost thoughts with Yao Zijin. She was too tired and chose a path she would not regret. Zhu Zhanji knew that Yao Zijin had not said much to Hu Shanxiang, but the empress left the very next day, and it still weighed on his mind.
The crown prince is reborn. Just before his death at thirty-eight, he suddenly realizes that she was the one he loved all along. But back then, he understood nothing, was hurt by her, and fell in love with someone else.