In the spring of the twelfth year of Taiping, under the apricot tree, Xie Changyuan, the prince of Zhenbei, put a jade pendant into the hands of Shen Sui'an, the daughter of the judge of Taiyuan Hospital: "See you often every year. This is my promise to you."
She believed it. Fifteen-year-old girls think that their life is long, long enough for them to see the rain of apricot blossoms and green-calyx plum blossoms every year.
In the winter of the seventeenth year of Taiping, a poisonous arrow that quenched the soul of the dead tore up all the oaths. In order to save him, she tried the medicine seven times on her own body. She coughed up blood for three nights and suffered severe heart failure. However, due to a carefully designed misunderstanding, he left the border in anger and did not return for five years.
When we meet again, he is the Marquis of Zhenbei with great military exploits, and she is the cold female doctor of Tai Hospital. He hates her for being an "empathic prince", and she blames him for being "gullible to others". The two proud people torture each other in silence, with each word carrying a knife and every sentence hurting their hearts.
Until the truth came out - the burned letter, the bottle of antidote with a changed name, and the stolen jade pendant were all evidence of her love for him, all of which were the depth of love that she dared not speak out.
But it's too late.
"Xie Changyuan, if the green calyx plum blossoms are dead, they can be replanted. But if the people's hearts are dead, they cannot be saved."
He knelt in the snow in Meiling and dug out the remains of the letter she had buried five years ago. It read: "I will wait for you to come back. We will see each other every year. It will count for the rest of our lives."
When this life is over, I will give you mine too.
In the spring of the fourth year of Yongning, she leaned in his arms under a century-old apricot tree outside Suzhou City. Her plain white dress was dyed pale pink by the petals, like a flower that was about to wither.
"I'm sleepy."
"Go to sleep, I'll stay with you. We see each other every year, this time it counts."
Concept: Two proud people tortured each other for a lifetime with silence. When he finally opened his mouth to explain, no one had the chance to listen.