My name is Yi Guang, from Zhuluo Village in Yue State.
They said, you are going to the Kingdom of Wu to make Fu Chai fall in love with you.
I went and he did fall in love with me. But later history books wrote: Yue destroyed Wu, Fu Cha committed suicide, and Xi Shi disappeared.
That was their end.
My story starts with another choice——
That day, by the Ruoye River, it was not Fan Li who found me first. It was a man on horseback, wearing armor, who had lost his way. He asked me what my name was, and I said my name was Yi Guang. He said, follow me.
I nodded.
From now on, I am no longer Xi Shi, but just his Yiguang. He taught me horseback riding and archery, took me to the Gusu Terrace to watch the sunset, and pulled me into his arms on a rainy day, saying that I was his life. I thought this was a lifetime.
But I forgot that I am from Yue and he is the King of Wu. The Yue Kingdom's sword has never been put down, Fan Li's eyes are everywhere, and Wu Zixu's admonitions are beating on the court every day. I stood beside him, but it became his most fatal weakness.
When the iron hoof of revenge tramples through the city of Suzhou, when my motherland and my lover can only choose one or the other, then I understand——
Some encounters are doomed from the beginning.
In this life, I met you first. But can we really change the ending?
