[On the new emperor's coronation ceremony, he rushed into the palace covered in blood: "My queen, who allows you to enter the palace?"]
The day the obituary for Lu Xiao's death in battle was delivered to the Zhenbei General's Mansion, I was still sewing a winter coat for him.
Three days later, I was summoned to the palace by a secret decree and given the title of Imperial Concubine. The world scolded me for clinging to a dragon and a phoenix. Rotten eggs were smashed on the sedan curtain, and the egg liquid dripped down the silk surface.
No one knows that I came to the palace under a secret order to look for something.
Concubine Zhou humiliated me in public. The white fox fur I wore belonged to Lu Xiaoxu. I knelt on the broken porcelain and remained silent.
Until I saw him again in the night breeze of Jixian Pavilion - he was not dead.
There was a new scar on his jaw and a bandage on his left shoulder. He said, "I will start an uprising within half a month."
I tore his engagement letter into pieces and told him, "Next time, tell me in person."
Later, he fought back to the capital, and all the civil and military officials in the court knelt on the ground. He got off the horse and walked up to me step by step. Covered in blood and dust, he only said three words:
"I'm here."
——But he didn't know that I was holding something he had been looking for for nine years.
The late emperor's edict. Tiger Talisman. And the truth about his mother's murder.
Whose chess piece is still uncertain.
