On their wedding night, General Huo Yun Zhao was absent on military business, leaving Shen Ruxu sitting alone until dawn.
A long stretch of neglect and misunderstandings followed, wearing her heart down until it was utterly broken. She left with a dead heart, and only after the mansion stood empty did he belatedly taste the bitterness of loneliness.
War suddenly flared along the northern frontier, and he was ordered to set out. Before leaving, he stood outside her door and said he only wanted to see her one more time. After a long silence, four words came from within: “Take care, General.”
He never knew, even to the day he died, that she remained unmarried for the rest of her life.
In a dream, one knows not that one is a guest; then, suddenly awake, one finds the dream lover returned with spring.
