Her name is Bai Hengzhi, the daughter of a guilty minister, the most inconspicuous weed under the palace wall.
His name is Mu Jinxuan, a young general, the legitimate son of an aristocratic family, and the youngest upstart before the emperor.
They shouldn't have any intersection.
But by chance, he took the wrong road and met her by the well in the back alley.
From then on, he passed by Leng Gong once every half month, and she secretly slipped a note into his sleeve.
"General, be careful of the old injury on your right shoulder. It will rain tonight."
He found out that she was an orphan of the Bai family and began to protect her secretly.
At the Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet, he blocked the Queen Mother's penalty drink for her.
On the eve of the expedition, he handed her a silver hairpin through the palace wall: "When I come back, I will take you out of the palace."
She said, "How long?"
"Three years at most."
She waited three years.
For three years, she was used as a substitute for the queen, was demoted to the cold palace, and burned all his letters.
Three years and three years.
She was blind and paralyzed, and lived in a dilapidated temple on the outskirts of the city.
He's back. After a great victory in suppressing the rebellion, he knelt in the court and asked not for a reward, but for one person.
The emperor told him: Bai Hengzhi is dead.
He didn't believe it.
He searched and searched for ten years and finally found her in that ruined temple.
He knelt outside the door: "Hengzhi, I'm here to pick you up."
Inside the door, she hid her face in her sleeves and cried -
"Don't come in, please. I'm not worthy of that silver hairpin."
But she didn't know that he had been wearing the silver hairpin for ten years.
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Later, she drank poisonous wine and died in his arms.
He held her, and his hair turned gray overnight.
Intention: life and death