On the day Jiang He died, it rained for the first time since autumn in the capital.
She jumped from the highest star-catching tower in the palace and wore a white dress. The sound of landing was very soft, so soft that no one heard it.
Before that, she was the substitute of Pei Yanyang, the regent of Daliang, who stayed in the mansion for three years. Everyone in the capital knew that the regent had a white moonlight in his heart - Shen Qingyi, the late emperor's concubine, the legendary beauty who had lived in this world for twenty-three years, but was kept alive for twenty-three years.
Jiang He looks like Shen Qingyi. When you're not smiling, it's like three points, when you're smiling, it's like seven points, and when you're crying, it's like ten points.
Pei Yan kept her by his side, raised her, doted on her, and spent all his time on her, but never touched her. He would touch her face late at night and call her "Qingyi", he would hold her in his arms when drunk and say "you are finally back", and he would remain silent for a long time with red eyes when she wore Shen Qingyi's favorite moon-white skirt.
Jiang He thought he was enduring until the day he let go of Bai Yueguang.
But she didn't make it.
Three years later, Pei Yan found Shen Qingyi's tomb - she was not dead at all. She was sent out of the palace by the late emperor to avoid trouble. On the day when the news came back to the capital, Pei Yan personally brought a bowl of Bizi soup to Jiang He. His voice was as calm as if he was saying that the weather was nice today: "Drink. You don't have to wait in bed anymore."
Jiang He drank the bowl of medicine, put on the moon-white skirt that Shen Qingyi left behind that night, climbed to the highest point of the Star-Zhaing Tower, and jumped.
Before she died, she heard a cold voice in her head:
"Ding - the 'substitute system' is successfully bound. The host has achieved the 'Despair' achievement and triggered the rebirth benefit. Do you want to return to three years ago?"
