The New Smiling, Proud Wanderer: The Jade-Like Young Master

He was a refined and handsome young master of an aristocratic family, with a pair of flirtatious, upturned peach-blossom eyes and a face much like Lin Pingzhi's. Years of taking medicine had left him surrounded by its fragrance. He studied medicine under the imperial physician of the day. Though frail from birth and innately disadvantaged in martial arts, he never resented his lot. He was well-read in the Four Books and Five Classics, skilled in the six arts, and had dabbled in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, yet he was never bound by convention. He loved wine, but only fine wine; he scorned the cheap stuff. He longed for freedom and despised those who pretended to be carefree but were rotten inside, stealing to satisfy their own selfish desires. He loved the realm and dreamed of setting the world right, with all under heaven in his heart. Yet he loved beauty even more. He was a dashing young man, famous throughout Jiangnan. He had known her for ten years and loved her for nine. As it turned out, when they met at sixteen, he had already lost everything. He feared heights, but for her, he leaped into a ravine without regret. He paid a fortune to make her promise to perform his capping ceremony, but he left. When they met again, he had been capped, but it was not her who had tied up his hair. For her, he entered the imperial court as an official and rode into battle. He won half a month of tender affection, but in the end, they met as strangers. Everyone said he had brought the world's love and hate to life. He deceived her, and there was a time when she no longer trusted him. He and she came together and parted three times. In the end, for her, he abandoned all the world's splendor. Of three thousand rivers, he would drink from only one. All because she was Dongfang Bubai...