On the day Shen Huan married into Prince Yong's Mansion, Xiao Yong raised his hijab and glanced at her. His eyes were neither cold nor warm. He just quietly confirmed one thing - it was her, not Shen Yuan. He already knew it.
On the day Shen Yuan left, he wrote a letter of renunciation, pushed Xiao Yong away, and hid himself in Xinghua Village in the south of the Yangtze River. She thought she was blocking the knife for him and thought he didn't know the truth. What she didn't know was that Xiao Yong received the secret report from the secret guard earlier than she did, made the decision earlier than she did, locked the white jade pendant and the thirty-seven words she wrote earlier than she did - and then continued to go to court, discuss matters, and seize the heir, without looking back.
Shen Huan knows nothing. She thought she was standing here for her sister, thought that Xiao Yong was cold to her because of Shen Yuan, and thought that this marriage was just a helpless substitute marriage. She managed the palace peacefully, sat firmly in the back seat, and guarded the Sixth Palace for him. She never asked "Do you have me in your heart?" Many years later, she sat under the lamp of Fengyi Palace and thought about it, and then slowly pieced together the road that had been paved in advance - he knew who she was the moment he lifted the hijab, he handed over the secret letter, he locked the jade pendant, he was always sober.
Three sober people, on a crossed road. One thought she was carrying it for him, one knew that he had caught her sacrifice, and one later realized that he had been in the chess game from the beginning.
They all made their choice, and no one looked back or regretted it.
