There was a crazy woman at the entrance of Guihui Lane, sitting under the parasol tree every day, waiting for someone.
No one knew who she was waiting for.
Aunt Wang said that she was not crazy originally. She was once the most beautiful girl in the Xie family. She once had a fiancé named Song Guyuan. For that marriage contract, she had transformed herself from a little girl who skipped school to a talented woman who was famous in Chang'an.
But once Song Guyuan entered the capital, he became a new minister beside the eldest prince.
When they met again, she was involved in the struggle for the right to inherit the throne because of a poem about Qingzhou famine; the second prince Bai Mu gave her a gift of crabapples, and the eldest prince Bai Muchuan tried to win over the Xie family, while Song Gu Yuan stood on the side of power and only advised her to be cautious, to give in, and not to get herself involved.
But she had no way out.
Xie's family was framed, his old marriage was torn up, and his father died unjustly. She finally understood that the flowers in Chang'an never bloomed in vain.
Some people borrowed flowers to test her, some people borrowed flowers to get involved, and some people borrowed flowers to send her away half her life.
Later, Song Gu Yuan finally returned and asked her with red eyes: "Chi Yu, do your childhood words still count?"
But she smiled.
"Master Song, it's too late."
