One is a princess who seems too frail to take care of herself, but in a fit of rage could slaughter her way across half the empire.
The other seems physically disabled, steadfast, lonely, and helpless, but is the Imperial Grandson whom everyone avoids.
They thought their bond was nothing but an illusion, a moon reflected in water during their desperate struggle to survive in hell. They did not know fate had tied their red thread many years earlier.
In the second year of Jinghe, Princess Anle took her own life, and fate finally revealed one of its hideous corners.
Envoys from Beiyong traveled south to Jinling to examine the coffin.
Only then did people realize that worse than a princess who was no princess and a commandery princess who was no commandery princess was this:
The blood shed during the Yuanjia era had flowed for more than twenty years, and even in the Jinghe era, it had not stopped.
Theme: The true decline of an era is not the breaking of its realm, but the disappearance of its gentlemen.
