The Empire

The realm or the beauty: which matters more?

Dressed in red, she told him goodbye.

"I leave now for my country and my people. After this, we will have nothing more to do with each other."

With that, beneath the peach tree, she drew her sword and cut off a lock of hair.

"The two of us are like this severed lock. There can be no continuing our past relationship."

She turned and walked away. A single tear fell beneath the tree, burying the sorrow of being sent by her beloved to marry into another kingdom.

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