[Favored Consort x Powerful Minister x Emperor]
My lover left.
He said that when the peach blossoms bloomed in the spring next year, he would come back and marry me.
I waited from spring to summer, then from autumn to winter, and then through another spring and summer.
I waited and waited, watching the peach blossoms in the courtyard bloom and fall, fall and bloom.
Year after year, he never came back.
Since I couldn't wait for him to return and marry me, I went to the capital to find him.
In the capital,
I finally saw him again, but by then, I had become the emperor's woman.
Short story, not serialized for profit.
Theme: Once you've seen the ocean, no other water will do.
