After dying from overwork while rushing to finish her thesis, Lu Yiyun, a graduate student in urban and rural planning, transmigrated into the daughter of a minor official.
Her parents doted on her, her cousin protected her, and even the maid was willing to help her learn who was who from scratch. She was quite satisfied with this new life, until a marriage proposal came knocking.
Pei Xuheng, the regent, was handsome, powerful, and had more rules than words.
She thought it over, then asked first: if the couple were to become estranged in the future, could they divorce by mutual agreement?
He agreed readily.
Thus, one seeking a marriage alliance and the other having seriously considered his future options, the two became husband and wife, each harboring their own thoughts.
After they married, she called him Prince Regent, and he called her Princess Consort.
Even under the same lamp, they still had to weigh every word they said.
Yet as time passed, many inexplicable exceptions gradually appeared beyond the rules.
He remembered the old bridge she had mentioned in passing, while she waited to hear his footsteps returning late before allowing herself to sleep peacefully.
Later, after leaving the capital, they witnessed embezzlement behind the distribution of relief grain and clutched each other's hands tightly in perilous situations.
Later still, the frontier was in crisis, and he donned his armor and departed for battle. When floods struck the capital, she rolled up her sleeves and waded into the mud, turning the streets and houses on her blueprints into a plan for sheltering the people.
In their letters sent across a thousand miles, both stubbornly reported only that they were safe.
Lu Yiyun had always thought she would miss the escape route they had agreed upon.
When the date of his return drew near, she realized that what she had been turning over in her mind again and again was everything she wanted to say when they reunited.
And the man who had once been accustomed to shouldering everything alone finally had a home he wanted to return to sooner.
Some only understand longing after marriage; some fall in love when young and finally receive an answer.
After all the wind and rain, they still owed each other a spring outing.
