The day Tang Yizhen ran away from her wedding, she left behind eight words:
"I never wanted this marriage. Don't look for me."
It wasn't marriage she feared.
She was afraid of ending up like her mother, trapped in the four walls of the Marquis's estate, waiting for a man who would never return, waiting all her life until she died of illness with no one beside her to talk to.
The night he received the letter Tang Yizhen had left behind, he read it seven times. His expression darkened a little more with each reading.
The person he'd longed for all these years didn't want him. He would find her and ask her to her face: Why did you run?
She heads north to save someone, while he is sent by imperial decree to deliver relief supplies. They run into each other in the snow...
