In the seventeenth year of the Yuan Dynasty, on the 19th day of the twelfth lunar month, there was a heavy snowfall in the capital.
Cui Xujing, the eldest son of Taichang Temple Minister, died on this day. He was buried as the "eldest son of the Cui family". The tablet could not be entered into the ancestral hall and the coffin was taken through a side door. The Queen Mother did not come to see him off. Neither can the concubine in the palace.
Seventeen years ago, at a banquet in Qionglin in spring, Dai Zhangyan, the prime minister's legitimate daughter, met Cui Xujing for the first time. At that time, he was still the noble eldest son of the Cui family, and she was still the daughter of a boudoir who knew no worries. A white jade pendant and an apricot blossom were the purest heartbeats of a young person.
Later, the Prime Minister's Palace sent her to the palace and became the late emperor's concubine. Later, the Queen Mother called him to sleep with him, and he became a shady figure. They met in confinement, separated by many palaces, their status as monarch and minister, and the Queen Mother's eyes that seemed to be smiling but not smiling. They never exchanged a word in this life.
There is only a cloak, a jade pendant, and ten years of silent watching.
On the day Cui Xujing died, Dai Zhangyan stood inside the palace gate for three hours. After returning to the palace, she burned all the portraits of him. The last picture is of herself - fifteen years old, under the apricot blossoms, smiling so hard her eyes are crooked.
The apricot blossoms were in bloom that year. It's just that every snowfall in the future falls on one person.
Concept: palace wall sadomasochism
