Like a Bubble

At Yique, the green steed gallops; bronze camels bloom with red pomegranates.

The geese are gone, the men in black are gone; the snow has melted from the imperial house.

She said:

A wolf's ambition, a tiger fallen on the plains.

Different paths, different ways, different beds, different dreams.

Sima Shi,

I do not wish to live and die with you.

// An ambitious schemer with the heart of an owl and the looks of a crane & A general's daughter who can turn killing intent into victory //

"So it turns out that one person alone can exhaust every emotion a person is capable of feeling."

"If the white jade were not broken, how would its fine beauty be revealed? These eyes have witnessed purgatory, and so are fit to guard the mortal world."

==The Ridiculous Version==

"Enter court without hurrying, receive praise without being named, and wear a sword and shoes in the throne hall."

This is the final step in a powerful minister's rise to usurp the throne during the Three Kingdoms period.

Excepting the earliest, Dong Zhuo, and the latest, Zhuge Ke, the others were:

Cao Cao (the heroine's maternal grandfather), Cao Zhen (the heroine's maternal uncle), Cao Shuang (the heroine's cousin),

Sima Yi (the heroine's father-in-law), Sima Shi (the heroine's husband), Sima Zhao (the heroine's younger brother-in-law).

They say serving a ruler is like serving a tiger.

So what is it like to be related to every treacherous minister of the Three Kingdoms? Surely it's like trying to survive among wolves.

The heroine, Xiahou Hui, is stunned:

What kind of [Powerful Minister's Noblewoman Demo] is this?!

[Xiahou Hui] Why must the little girl selling matches understand the Art of War?

"The Twin Jades of Luoyang, the Two Beauties of Cao Wei." But her ambition is to establish a secret organization for women of the imperial clan and aristocratic families: the "Men in Black."

(The story's one and only heroine.)

[Sima Shi] A sinister, food-loving "powerful minister" who deposes emperors and kills empresses, and never takes a loss!

His dreams of glory shattered. On this chessboard of a century-long bloody struggle for power, he presses ever onward: he never stops, never regrets, never reflects, and never turns back.

(The one and only designated male lead of the romance.)

[Sima Zhao] An "Emperor's favorite" who doesn't even realize how lucky he is, a slacker bking.

When they first met, she hid her face behind a fan. The prophecy, "King Wen above, his brilliance shining in heaven," was like poison smeared across his blade.

(The person in charge of the progress bar for the truth storyline.)

[Cao Rui] A "ruler" of extraordinary talent: extravagant, obsessive, stuttering, cross-dressing, and altogether not quite right.

I need to find a way to get the Four Regents fighting, and I also need to teach the female secretary to review memorials for me!

(The direct superior receiving reports on the career storyline.)

Yique lies leagues away; sudden rain falls hard. Who wears blue robes?

Flickering campfires kindle passion; a jeweled carp is set to boil.

We meet as strangers, yet stubbornly trace every misunderstanding to its roots.

Adorned with plum blossoms and carrying tourmaline, I wield a brush made of rat whiskers.

One letter sent on paper, warmed by the gentle southern breeze.

Fate was a fleeting illusion, yet the folding fan fell, and love sank deep.

We should have walked the same road, yet fate made us strangers, divided like clouds and mud.

Even the historians felt too guilty to record a single line.

The willows at the south gate stand green and empty; the walls of old Luoyang have crumbled.

Regret cannot be made into poetry.

Who could have guessed that love and hate would both be madness, that all our blood and tears would be staked on one throw?

Again and again, we laid our hearts bare, until even our souls were lost.

A thousand years from now, I will still be the only one who knew you.

Only, I will have no name.

Theme: The choices we make after time and ideals have worn each other away