Heavy snow fell all night long, covering the imperial city's red walls and golden tiles, and freezing thousands of miles of mountains and rivers into deathly silence. The wind whimpered through the empty palace, like an elegy played in advance, making the entire imperial capital breathless.
I stood at the highest point of Zhengyang Tower, my clothes were torn and fluttered by the strong wind, and my fingertips were numb and white with the cold. At their feet were millions of black-armored cavalry, arrayed like a mountain, their swords and spears reflected the snow, and the cold light penetrated their bones. The silver-black battle armor in front of the formation stands tall and lonely in the deepest part of the wind and snow.
It's Lu Jingheng.
He is the young man whom I first met when I was seven, fell in love with him when I was fifteen, spent half my life entangled in love and hate, and ended up falling in love with each other and becoming regretful.
He marched to the emperor's palace, besieged the city with cavalry, and overthrew the court. He never fought for the throne or power. He is just for me. For that young engagement that was torn to pieces by fate, for his obsession and anger that he had misunderstood for ten years, for getting back the me that he held in the palm of his hand and pushed into the abyss with his own hands.
Behind me, three feet of white silk fell down, and the remaining warmth dissipated.
Shen Zhiyan is dead.
He is the only stable firework in my troubled marriage and the most gentle and clean background in my dark years. He has been honest and innocent all his life, gentle and courteous, and has never failed me in any way. However, just because of his marriage to me, and just because of the evil fate that Lu Jingheng and I have been entangled with for half a lifetime, I have become a victim of the imperial power game for no reason, and I have ended up with my life, reputation, and family ruined.
In my vigorous and endless torment of love and hate, he was quiet, humble, and unknown. In the end, he gave up all his life in exchange for my unresolved debt.
