A chance meeting in the rain became the beginning of their story.
A top scholar brimming with ambition and the young daughter of a marquis began their romance in what seemed to be nothing more than a dilapidated temple.
Jiang Wanqing was carrying military orders through the area when a heavy downpour led her to meet Yuchi Yingfang, who had been studying there with his head down. Through one conversation after another, and their teasing exchanges, they came to know someone neither had expected to meet.
A few nights later, they went their separate ways to pursue their futures, leaving each other behind.
After Yuchi Yingfang passed the provincial exams and arrived in the capital, he met that extraordinary woman again.
When the Empress Dowager arranged their marriage, Yuchi Yingfang moved into the Jiang residence.
During his time there, they gradually fell in love.
But after an ill-judged prank, Madam Jiang drove her daughter away, and Yuchi Yingfang moved out as well.
After he earned top honors in the palace exam, the emperor entrusted him with an important task: governing a small county in a remote region. During that time, he met all kinds of people.
He witnessed the people go from ignorance to awakening, then returned to assist the Crown Prince. But in the end, he was no match for the prime minister, who framed him and sent him to the windswept deserts of the northwest, hoping to have him killed by the enemy. Who could have guessed that he would repeatedly distinguish himself in battle and eventually return to court?
But power was no longer in the hands of the emperor who had once valued him. The new emperor arranged for the woman he loved to marry another man, then used an unfounded charge related to one of his missions to threaten Yuchi Yingfang. In the end, he chose to endure it.
But Jiang Wanqing couldn’t understand. She ended everything by taking her own life. And at that moment, Yuchi Yingfang had nothing left in this world to hold him back. He joined her in death, and they went hand in hand into the afterlife.
