She has been missing out all her life.
Shen Changning has only done one thing in his life - wait.
When she was eight years old, she climbed up the green plum tree by the river. She was waiting for him to catch her.
When she was fourteen years old, she heard that he was going to go on an expedition. She read through her father's military books and studied the mountains and terrain of the northern border page by page. She was waiting for his return.
When he was sixteen, he cut the family jade pendant in two and hung half of it around her neck, saying that he would marry her and go home when he closed the jade pendant.
She smiled and said yes.
Later, the Shen family was raided, and she knelt in the cell holding the half of the jade pendant. When the jailer changed the guard, she heard a very soft sound coming from the cell, as if someone was rubbing a piece of jade repeatedly.
She said to herself that she would never wait for him in this life. It's not that he wants to break his promise, it's that fate doesn't give him this chance.
She climbed up from the official road, survived from the prison car, and walked back to the capital step by step from the medical clinic in Jiangnan.
She sharpened herself into a knife, sharp, calm, and never showed timidity in front of others easily.
He overturned the verdict for her and exchanged a marriage he was unwilling for her with an identity that could stand upright in the sun. The place of that half piece of jade pendant always remains in my heart, and the light in his eyes when he looked down at her under the fireworks all over the Lantern Festival that year.
Later, war broke out in the north. She didn't call his name when he rode out of the city gate - she knew him too well, and if he had the slightest intention of living, he wouldn't rush towards the enemy line decisively. She stood on the tower and watched his back disappear into the wind and snow. She suddenly remembered that spring afternoon many years ago, when a young man dancing with a sword stood under the willow tree. She stood under the ginkgo tree on the other side of the river and heard the sound of her own heartbeat.
