A marriage contract bound her to the imperial palace, and half a lifetime of infatuation came to nothing.
Xiao Yanzi went from a wild girl of the martial world to the most dazzling Princess Huanzhu in the Forbidden City. She fell deeply in love with the Fifth Prince, Yongqi, and believed they could escape the constraints of palace rules and stay together forever. But hearts can change, and jealousy runs rampant in the inner palace. Zhihua schemed at every turn, while the Empress Dowager applied pressure with a cold gaze. The vows of eternal love they once made were ultimately shattered by misunderstanding and hurt.
She leapt to sever her ties to the past; he came to his senses and crossed mountains and rivers in search of her.
They went their separate ways, never to meet again. When the fierce swallow of old returned to the wilderness, and his belated love was buried beneath the dust, their breathtaking past became nothing more than a dream from which they could never wake.
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