After the Flames, Back to Ordinary Life
In the first half of their lives, they were mired in bloody political intrigue, enduring the flames that nearly consumed them and the pain of separation in life and death. Their love and hatred left them battered and scarred.
At last, they put aside the grudges of court politics. Ye Jinghong and Xie Xun retreated to a quiet mountain village, leaving behind the clash of blades to tend the daily warmth of a small home.
Through the years and seasons, they lived ordinary days, shedding the hardships they had carried and healing the wounds of half a lifetime as they stayed by each other’s side in peaceful simplicity.
They had once crossed the thorns of hell and endured every kind of suffering. At last, they found a full and happy life: their children grew up and married, their family lived in harmony, and every year passed in peace.
It turned out that the greatest salvation in the world was never power over all beneath heaven. It was returning to an ordinary life and staying by the side of the one you loved, year after year, after weathering the ups and downs of the flames, with the warmth of home enduring forever.
