, Huo Shuhan entered the palace and became the princess's companion. She was eight years old that year and met Xiao Lingyi and Xiao Linyuan who was lying on the rockery and called her "that girl from the Huo family".
Later, after Beidi was defeated in the battle and asked for a hand in marriage, the emperor was reluctant to bear his own daughter to marry far away, so he chose her as his replacement.
A letter of credence and a sedan chair sent her to the grassland thousands of miles away. Ten years later she returned.
