That year, the peach blossoms in southern Xinjiang were in full bloom, as red as blood and like the coral beads on a phoenix crown. Shen Qingshang stood on the embroidery building, watching the flags of Huai'an Prince's Mansion in the distance flapping in the spring breeze. She didn't know that three months later, these flags would be replaced by another kind of red - that is the color of wedding dresses and the color of blood.
