On the night of the Lantern Festival, Shen Qingyan said in front of everyone, "The young lady of the Pei family is flighty by nature. She is not someone you should get too close to."
Standing behind the flower lanterns, Pei Yunshu wore the jade pendant he had given her and heard with her own ears as their affection was ground to dust.
She fell gravely ill and returned to her old home in Shandong. Barefoot, she stepped into the wheat fields, learned to draw water at the well, and on the land of her ancestors, planted herself anew, inch by inch, from the mud.
Later, Shen Qingyan said, "Pei Yunshu, I like you. I want to marry you and spend my whole life with you."
She said, "All right."
Theme: Deep devotion can withstand the passage of time and all its storms.
