Love Without Farewell

Childhood sweethearts, a sweet little everyday romance

1.

Xiangsi's parents died when she was eight, and she was brought into the palace to be raised by the Empress Dowager herself. The first time she met the Crown Prince, he gave her a jade pendant and promised, "From now on, you'll stay by my side."

The Empress Dowager joked that she could become the Crown Princess one day.

From then on, everyone in the Eastern Palace treated her as the future Crown Princess.

In the sixth year of Changning, tensions in the palace ran high. To keep him from being implicated, she left the capital of her own accord and returned to her hometown in Huanyang.

He said, "Don't think you can run away. Wait two years, and I'll come for you."

In the eighth year of Changning, the Crown Prince ascended the throne as emperor. To avoid any further complications, he immediately sent people to bring her back to the capital.

2.

In the first year of Chongan, the emperor and empress were married. She was cautious, unsure whether his feelings were still the same.

In the second year of Chongan, while the emperor led a personal expedition, the empress gave birth to their eldest son.

In the third year of Chongan, the realm was at peace. The officials urged His Majesty to take more consorts and produce heirs for the imperial family. The empress moved to Cian Temple to pray and abstain from meat. His Majesty followed her there and was turned away for three days. Furious, he berated a whole crowd of people so thoroughly that no one dared bring it up again.

In the eighth year of Chongan, the empress fell gravely ill. His Majesty searched everywhere for renowned doctors but found none, so he ordered people to begin digging out the imperial tomb. He said, "If you dare to die, I'll lie in there with you." She held on by sheer will, and miraculously began to recover.

In the fourteenth year of Chongan, the young emperor took the throne, while the Empress Dowager and the retired emperor withdrew to Guanglin Garden.

Four years later, the two disappeared. On the road south, there was one more simply dressed couple. The young lord carried his wife on his back, his face full of exasperation. "After all these years, you still can't walk more than a few steps."

One day, thinking of her late parents, Xiangsi picked up her brush and wrote, "Xiangsi, forever parted."

Turning around, Li Wenxuan crossed it out and changed it to, "Xiangsi, never parted."

-They met young, and a promise was worth its weight in gold-

-May Xiangsi never be parted from her beloved again-

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Theme: Never forgetting your original intentions