[Jade of the Season fanfic, original one-on-one romance with both leads devoted only to each other, major changes, please don’t flame if it’s not your thing]
The year Shen Nanzhi turned nine, her entire family was slaughtered. She crawled out of the cellar without crying. Ten years later, she walked into Lin’an Town with a short blade at her waist, its hilt engraved with the character for “live.”
They first met in a teahouse. Sui Yuanqing, heir to the Prince of Changxin, asked her, “Aren’t you afraid?” She replied, “Why should I be?” He didn’t know she had come to kill his father. She didn’t know that his blade had no words engraved on its hilt.
Later, they discovered that Sui Yuanqing’s older brother had worn a mask for seventeen years. Beneath it was a face burned by a brazier. When he was four, just before he was forced into the brazier, his mother had written a few words in his palm. He was too young to remember them. Someone had inscribed those words in rouge on the back of a portrait in the Imperial Ancestral Temple, where they lay hidden for twenty years.
In Suzhou, there is a restaurant called Yixiang Tower, run by a woman named Yu Qianqian. Every autumn, she steams a pot of osmanthus cakes and covers them with golden osmanthus blossoms, each one facing the same direction. She is waiting for someone to learn how to treat others well. She has been waiting for seven years.
Xie Zheng received a letter with just three words: “I understand now.” Fan Changyu said it was the longest family letter she had ever received.
Beneath a jujube tree at the Marquis of Wu’an’s residence, a man named Shen Du kept dried jujubes for ten years. He was waiting for his younger sister to come find him. She did.
In a side hall of the Imperial Ancestral Temple, beneath the eternal lamps, someone turned the portrait around...
[This has almost nothing to do with the original plot. Please leave if that’s not your thing.]
Can you continue to update? It's really nice.
It's nice to look at, but why do you feel so few people there?