“When I first met Zhenyi, she was sitting on the wall around her home. She was so brave.”
Li Zhenyi, daughter of the Vice Minister of Personnel, was gentle and virtuous. In the twentieth year of Changzhi, at sixteen, she was betrothed by imperial decree to Crown Prince Zhao Hongzhi.
“Zhenyi became my wife. I want to be with her for all eternity.”
The following year, Li Zhenyi and Zhao Hongzhi's first child was born. The emperor named him Zhao Yanjing.
Half a year after the child's birth, the Xiongnu invaded, and Zhao Hongzhi was ordered to lead an army into battle.
“Zhenyi, just stay home and wait for me.”
He returned victorious in the first month of the twenty-third year.
In the twenty-fourth year, their twins, second son Zhao Yanlin and eldest daughter Zhao Yanning, were born.
In the twenty-seventh year, when Li Zhenyi was four months pregnant, the Xiongnu invaded again. Zhao Hongzhi volunteered to lead the army into battle. Four months later, he disappeared during a fierce battle. After giving birth, Li Zhenyi learned that her husband was missing. Ignoring all objections, she took her four children to the palace and entrusted them to the empress's care, asking her to protect them until they grew up safely.
“Hongzhi is my husband. I must go look for him.”
Their eldest son, Zhao Yanjing, knelt and begged his mother to take him along. Later, they found Zhao Hongzhi.
In the twenty-eighth year, he said, “Zhenyi, you shouldn't have come.”
“I once made a vow: year after year, through every new year, we would never be apart.”
It's pretty cool. The prince marries the woman he likes. He doesn't need to settle down and marry someone he doesn't love.
Very well written and very beautiful
The writing is gentle and delicate, and the emotional lines are interspersed with national affairs and people's livelihood. It is a good work. I hope it will be successful.