Her Love Never Fades

Blurb:

I once said that three jars of Daughter's Red wine were my limit.

But on the night she entered Chengqian Hall, sitting awake alone until dawn, digging my nails into my palms until they left bloody furrows deep enough to show bone, that was my limit.

I once asked her about her dreams, too. She said she wanted to remain favored forever and for the He family to enjoy a hundred years of peace and prosperity.

So I couldn't bear to let her face this palace of schemes and rivalries alone.

In our next lives, may we meet a little earlier.

May I love her for a few more years.

For no other reason.

I only ask that Heaven grant me

one wish fulfilled.

Only when the sun has set can the evening begin.

I love her. Even if her name is Wanwan, she will always be my dazzling Wanwan.

She can be less than proper. She can act coy with that person. She needn't care what everyone around her thinks, nor compete with all the resentful women in this palace.

But I can't. I have to protect her, stand against everyone in the palace who envies her, and make sure that innocence never leaves her eyes.

My undisguised tenderness is the greatest favor I can give her.

There's no use saying I feel sorry for her. At least I can ignore the world's judgment and really walk over and hold her.

None of this romance will have a future.

I know that.

At ten years old, the General's legitimate daughter secretly slipped out of the manor to see the lantern festival. She bought the rabbit lantern she liked and met the person she would love most.

When I met her, neither of us ever wondered what the future might bring. We never had to exchange formal greetings when we met. There was no turmoil to come and no need to worry about our families' futures. The General's manor was only two streets away from the Chancellor's residence.

This is the tenth year since I met her.

I wish so much that she could be mine.

One-on-one romance

Theme: Love and warmth go both ways.