At her coming-of-age ceremony, Princess Su Yao took one look at the musician behind the gauze curtain and fell for him.
Below sat the assembled officials, bowing in awe. The man kept his head lowered, his profile stern, his jade-white fingers sweeping across the strings. It was as if nothing in the world concerned him, and he looked every bit a banished immortal.
Su Yao was quite taken with him, and immediately had the musician assigned to her side.
"You're so far away. How am I supposed to see your fingering?" Su Yao asked the man at a distance.
The man reluctantly moved closer.
Su Yao pretended to strum randomly. "Looks like you'll have to teach me hand over hand."
But no one knew that this seemingly low-status musician was Gu Xiyun, the only son of the Prince of Zhennan, who commanded a powerful army.
The princess wanted to learn the zither, and he was naturally happy to teach her. But...
Su Yao lay back on the couch. The zither she had been pretending to play was long gone. She nudged him with her jade foot. "I want grapes."
Gu Xiyun's fingers paused on the strings. He expertly peeled a grape and held out the fruit.
Su Yao ate it while playing with his jade fingers, breathing warm air into his palm.
Reading guide:
1. The heroine is obsessed with hands and looks. Her so-called love at first sight is really just being taken by someone's appearance.
2. The male and female leads are not related by blood.
3. A marriage-first, love-later story, with both leads putting on an act.
Message: Obey the law and strive to be a good citizen
