In the 17th year of Yong'an, the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month is a good time to get married. On that day, two sedans from the Yong'an Marquis Mansion went out at the same time - one with eight handles, painted with red lacquer and gold, carried the step-sister Shen Qinglian to be married into the Regent's Palace; the other was an old sedan with four people, carrying the legitimate daughter Shen Qingci, who was promised to a fifty-three-year-old old widower in the east of the city. Marrying on the same day, separated by a wall and clouds and mud.
Shen Qingci sat in the old sedan with a leaky roof, holding a withered plum blossom. It was placed under her window three years ago before the man went off to war. He said, wait for me to come back. She waited for three years, but what she waited for was the news that he had died in battle. My heart is filled with despair, who am I not marrying?
But she didn't know that at the end of the long street, a young general covered in blood was galloping on his horse. He had just returned from the battlefield thousands of miles away, with three arrow wounds on his body, just to come back before the auspicious time to marry her.
He saw the sedan chair, heard the sound of gongs and drums, and shouted her name heartbreakingly.
But the noisy crowd drowned out his voice.
He didn't even know that the sedan chair that was supposed to go to the east of the city was carried into the Regent's Palace by some strange coincidence. The popular hijab was lifted, and what Shen Qingci faced was the eyes as deep as cold pools of the current regent Xiao Jing.
"Who are you?"
From this moment on, the fate of the three people completely went off the track.
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One is the legitimate daughter who was married into the royal palace by accident. In the turbulent deep house and court, she grew from a chess piece to be slaughtered to a chess player who can stand side by side with the regent.
One is a cold-faced prince who holds all the power in the world. From being a loner who regards marriage as a transaction, he becomes willing to use the country as his betrothal and protect her.
