At the age of eighteen, Shen Ning, the daughter of the guilty minister, was sent to the Zhenbei Palace.
Not because of her beauty, not because of her talent, but because of her face, which is very much like the white moonlight in the prince's heart.
She was placed in the remote Yaoguang Pavilion and learned everything about that woman - her handwriting, the sound of her piano, the slightly drooped corners of her eyes when she looked at people. The prince would come occasionally and look at her in trance with his deep eyes, but he would call other people's names.
For three years, she kept her eyebrows down, never complained, and had the word "substitute" engraved in her bones.
Later, Bai Yueguang returned. The prince hosted a family banquet, and she served them dishes and poured wine with her own hands.
Late at night, the butler brought a bowl of medicine and said it was a gift from the prince - "Juezi Soup".
She drank it all with a smile, resigned the next day, and left the house.
Later, she opened an embroidery workshop deep in an alley and met a poor scholar who could draw chrysanthemums for her. He didn't know her past, he only knew that the frost chrysanthemums she embroidered were proud and frosty.
On the wedding night, the red candles flickered.
He had all the power in the world, but he knelt in the snow, vomiting blood and begging her to turn back.
Shen Ning opened the door, looked at him, and then looked back at her husband who was studying ink for her in the room.
She said: "Your Majesty, the past has disappeared like smoke. I hope you... Cherish it."
The door closed gently in front of him.
In this life, she had been his Shuanghua, but from now on, she would only be his own Ning.
