[Young General & Jiangnan Beauty & Sickly Marquis]
A young general’s promises are spring peach blossoms in Jiangnan, a river of stars on the frontier, and, in the end, a regret carved into the bones.
Lin Yanzhi said two things to Shen Qingyuan that meant more than anything.
First: “With me here, no one can bully you.”
Second: “When I come back, I’ll marry you.”
He fought for her, remembered that she loved osmanthus cakes, and wore her peace charm close to his heart. Yet he could neither protect her nor keep his promise.
The Lin army was framed, and the whole family was falsely accused. He went from a celebrated young general to a fugitive. Their farewell in a ruined temple
was the last dignity he could offer her.
And she, waiting for him, tried to take her life with a hairpin and fought against fate with all she had.
In the end, she became Gu Yun’s marquis wife, imprisoned in a cold mansion.
On the execution ground, bound in chains, he still held his head high. But when he faced her, all that remained was panic.
“Don’t look!”
As the blade fell,
he cried out for his family’s innocence
and thought of a peaceful future for her.
She held on to his wolf-fang pendant and endured countless sleepless nights, as the years wore away her beauty.
In her final dream, she was back at their first meeting among the peach blossoms.
All along, she hadn’t been waiting for a marriage contract. She had only been waiting for that boy with light in his eyes, who would pick peaches for her.
A power struggle over the throne crushed the young man’s spirit and shattered a marriage that should have had a happy ending.
It's very beautiful. Why did the young general die?