Xiao Yue, if one day I lead my iron cavalry into Jin Capital and avenge the national and family wrongs, would you still be willing to take my hand and run away with me to the ends of the earth?
"If that day comes, I will."
National and family vengeance, the realm and the woman he loves. He was once the crown prince of a dynasty, and she was a sheltered young lady. One chance encounter bound them in a lifelong ill-fated romance: a hopeless love between the former crown prince and a princess of another land.
"If Heaven has decreed that the Jing Dynasty will fall and the Wen family will be wiped out, then let me shatter you in my arms."
"Brother, as long as you are willing to die, why shouldn't Yue'er go with you?"
A rebellion turned their identities upside down. He claimed the throne, treading over the bones of his loved ones and hers. With hatred etched into her bones, she was reborn and traveled a thousand miles as a bride sent to another kingdom, all for the sake of his life. They were siblings by day and enemies by night. In this chaotic age, a beauty was born of hatred.
"Why put yourself through this?"
"Uncle, do you know that the greatest happiness of Yue'er's life was meeting you and falling in love with you? Being able to die for you is a happiness in itself."
Some people and some things, once encountered, become a lifelong obsession. If a beauty is fated to die young, then dying in the arms of the one she loves is also a kind of fulfillment.
