In the cold courtyard of the palace, thirteen-year-old Xiao Jinyu handed over a bowl of warm water and saved the proton Shen Qingci who was coughing up blood.
He is the seventh prince born of Wan Concubine. His mother's family is humble and he is like a transparent person among the nine princes. After nine years of hiding, he read military books, drew up defenses, and networked with people, living like a mask of "mediocrity".
She is the legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Zhenbei. She entered the palace in the name of "recuperating from illness", but in fact she was the emperor's hostage to check and balance the 300,000 border troops. Weakness is the armor and coldness is the shield. Under the double supervision of the Queen and the Emperor, she exchanged three years of embroidery needles for half of the court's intelligence network.
The encounter between the two "prisoners" is fate and calamity.
The queen forced her to marry the prince, but he used his evil scheme to break the situation and forcefully married her back to the palace; the grand master used her mother as a bargaining chip to force her to become a double agent, and she used her trick to turn the false information into a real trap; the emperor gave him a gold medal and asked him to act as an eyes and ears, and he used his strength to make the princelings and the three princes fight against each other.
He is the knife and she is the sheath. The blade of the knife faces outward, and the sheath protects the inside.
But when she blocked the poisonous hidden weapon for him, when the "destiny poison" invaded the heart and only had 30 days left to live, when the grand master laughed wildly before he died, "There is no solution in the world"——
Only then did he realize that nine years of hiding could hide the general trend of the world, but could not hide the trembling of his fingertips when she coughed up blood.
"I am not a chess player or a chess piece. I only do one thing: protect the people I want to protect and live as long as I want to live."
But she didn't survive after all.
The night she died with a smile on her face, he turned gray overnight. Fulfilling the promise, she was buried in the mountains and forests of the north, where the plum blossoms bloomed like snow and, as she said, "looked like blood."
Then he handed over his military power, stayed away from the muddy water of the capital, and ended his remaining life.
