[Younger Childhood Sweethearts] As adults, they become a general and an emperor. A perfect happy ending. A serious political drama, a love story amid chaos, and a tale of building something from nothing as they strive together toward a brilliant future. Spanning thirty years. Main couple: Ning Shuying and Lu Xiao. I'm trying to update daily, so come follow along! ^_^]
[Coming Soon: The Lost History of the Southern Kingdom. Set fifteen years after The Chronicles of King Qi. Main couple: an ambitious young emperor and a cautious prince of a fallen kingdom who takes his twin sister's place in a political marriage. Add it to your collection if you're interested. The blurb is pinned in the comments~~]
The year the Hu people invaded, Lu Xiao was thirteen. His father hurriedly withdrew with the troops and left him behind in Chang'an.
Lu Xiao lived alone for a long time, beset by soldiers, refugees, and hunger. Loneliness and cold slowly devoured his will. When winter came, he could no longer find any reason to keep living. Until one day, Lu Xiao rescued a strange little boy from the Hu people. The boy told him his name was Ning Shuying.
From that day on, for decades, Lu Xiao and Ning Shuying were never apart for even a single day.
Over the course of their long lives, Lu Xiao and Ning Shuying took on many different roles, and their relationship changed along with them. As children, they were friends; as young men, they were lovers; as adults, they were sovereign and subject.
Lu Xiao and Ning Shuying were never alike. Though the paths of their lives nearly overlapped, they still could not completely understand each other. On the road as refugees, on blood-soaked battlefields, in silent tents late at night, before the court with thousands watching, throughout a long life with no end in sight, they kept shouting themselves hoarse as they argued, suddenly making up, plunging back into the fray, then embracing each other as tightly as they could.
Abandoned by his parents as a child, Lu Xiao remained insecure even after he returned to his father's side. He doubted his parents, his younger brother, his subordinates, and everything else. And yet Lu Xiao never once doubted that Ning Shuying would leave him.
Because Lu Xiao always remembered that year when he was thirteen. On the snowy night he saved Ning Shuying, the dying boy crawled over to him and whispered a vow into his ear:
"From now on, Ning Shuying will help Lu Xiao and do things for him all his life. I'll be your friend and stay by your side forever to repay you. I won't let anyone say nasty things about you again. When you have children, and your children have children, you can tell them the same thing."
Even many years later, Lu Xiao still couldn't find the right words to describe how he had felt then. Amid the violent pounding of his heart, he had felt a long-forgotten urgency, and within that urgency, a secret, almost imperceptible shyness.
Ning Shuying was a strong person, many people had said as much. Even when he was filthy and unkempt, gaunt with hunger, or looked down on for his low status, the boy would sit there with a hot, brash look in his eyes, calmly and confidently plotting his future.
Lu Xiao liked being with Ning Shuying. He liked the way Ning Shuying narrowed his eyes when thinking, liked hearing others praise him, and liked watching him remove his helmet, kneel before him, and dutifully report on the day's military affairs. But what Lu Xiao liked most was the stillness of midnight. No candles. In the silent palace, Ning Shuying would sit beside him and say, in a voice with a rough, animal-like rasp, "Forever."
Forever means forever. Ning Shuying would always stand watch at night, always keep watch by his side. That meant Lu Xiao would never have to face alone the things he feared, which would never happen in the first place.
Theme: The power of companionship is beyond imagination.
Pre-receipt: "A History of the Southern Kingdom" (The story takes place fifteen years after "The Chronicles of King Qi" and tells the turbulent life experiences of Lu Xiao's nephew Lu Qiling and his brother Zhang Baique. It will explain some of the follow-up of the protagonists and supporting characters in "The Chronicles of King Qi" and their descendants) Main CP: Zhang Baique, the young emperor of Southern Xia who worked hard to govern x Lu Shijing, the ghost prince who married his twin sister It should be a story about a man who is uncertain and full of bad intentions, who uses his power and age difference to threaten Shou every day because he doesn't understand the language and has left his hometown... It was easy for Lu Shijing to fall in love with Zhang Baique. When he was in his hometown, Lu Shijing was not a favored prince. He and his sister had a father who became a disgrace after being defeated in the war, and a mother who was a foreigner from Yeyang. Most importantly, they all have a pair of light brown eyes. To the Guihou people, this is a symbol of slavery. The half-brothers and princes, the nobles walking on the streets, people have a very lively style. They would capture the twins, put them on ropes, put them out in the pasture, and chase them with the cattle as a way of having fun. When Lu Shijing dismissed his sister and came to a country far away from her homeland alone for her, the first person he saw was the emperor here. Lu Shijing wanted to kill the tyrant who conquered his homeland. But his trembling hands couldn't hold the knife tightly. The emperor's body leaked a lot of blood. But the emperor was not angry. Instead, he gave Lu Shijing some food and clothes. Every night, Lu Shijing sat in the empty palace waiting for him. The emperor told him that you can speak. Then Lu Shijing dared to speak; the emperor told him that you can leave this palace and study anything you want to study. Then Lu Shijing left the palace, learned the Han language, and learned the skills to make seedlings grow on a piece of land besides grazing. Zhang Baique would often visit him and bring him books and weird toys. Lu Shijing felt how kind Zhang Baique was to him. For Lu Shijing, Zhang Baique was a kinder person he had ever seen than his father and brother were to him. Lu Shijing eagerly wants to know what will happen to them in the future. He wanted to know the future between him and Zhang Baique. He wanted to know if he could stay here after people found his escaped sister. Lu Shijing wanted to stay in Southern Xia, on this land where seedlings could grow instead of pasture. Zhang Baique was very kind to him. Compared with those good things, Zhang Baique's long-term indifference, uncertainty and criticism are nothing. For the first six years of Zhang Baique's life, he had been living in hiding and being homeless. He picked up leftovers from slaves to satisfy his hunger, slept in a corner of the palace, and sometimes pretended to be crazy and stupid to please the Xie nobles who came to him for fun. Zhang Baique's father lived as humble a life as his son. But he told Zhang Baique that he was the only legitimate continuation of the Han Dynasty and the most noble child in the world. Zhang Baique thought his father was crazy. However, when the Uzbek cavalry captured Luoyang one day, the truth became clear. The world came to know that Emperor Fei of Xia, who had died in the history books, was still alive and was imprisoned in the deep palace of Luoyang for twenty years by Emperor Xie Huo Feng. As the only child of the deposed emperor Zhang Yufu and the nephew of the emperor of Nanxia, Zhang Baique was taken to Nanxia and spent his happy and fulfilling childhood. After the death of the Southern Xia Emperor, Zhang Baique inherited all his status and power. Despite this, he never forgot the humiliation he suffered as a child - Zhang Baique swore that as long as he lived in this world for one day, he would expel all the barbarians from the land of the Central Plains. Restore the North and return every piece of land from pasture to farming. At the age of twenty-four, Zhang Baique pacified the rest of the Guihou tribe and settled the country in one fell swoop. The country was destroyed and the people perished. The Anguo people were frightened and sent Lu Shiling, the princess of the Lu tribe, to Nanxia to get married. Zhang Baique immediately came up with a brilliant idea: he wanted to give the Princess Guihou to his younger brother Lu Qiling. The Lu family has a feud with the Guihou - when the Guihou conquered Chang'an, Princess Lu Shiling's father, Lu Yingze, personally massacred half of the descendants of the Lu family. Among them was Lu Qiling's grandfather Lu Wu. Zhang Baique loved his younger brother the most in his life, and he was willing to personally hand him this opportunity for reconciliation. The princess of Guihou was personally escorted by Cao Tilian, the son of Anguo's great Chanyu. Zhang Baique looked at the ghost princes who were knocking every five steps outside the city wall with a smile, and laid out a very grand banquet to welcome them. At the banquet, Zhang Baique and Cao Tilian drank and chatted happily. Cao Tilian sent the princess to Zhang Baique's palace and praised her cousin's beauty. However, Zhang Baique was unmoved. He made a decision in his heart to give this woman to his brother as his wife. Lu Qiling was traveling abroad at this time, so Zhang Baique asked the princess to wait here and get married in a few months. That night, the princess's servant came outside the palace and asked to see the emperor, saying that the princess was suddenly seriously ill and urgently needed to see the emperor. Zhang Baique didn't doubt that he was there and hurried to the princess's palace. However, what surprised him was that what he saw that day was not a princess - but a boy full of hatred and fear, wearing gorgeous fiery red clothes. He was rushing toward him with trembling hands, intending to stab a dagger into his chest. Deputy CP: Little Prince Lu Qiling x Real Princess Lu Shiling Everyone is welcome to pre-order this book. This book will be opened after the completion of "The Chronicles of King Qi". I hope to use three connected stories to connect a family history.
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