Xue Yan learned that her country had fallen and her family was lost. The city had been breached, and the emperor had hanged himself on his throne.
As empress of the Great Zhou dynasty, she did not wish to go on living.
Then someone came rushing over mountains and rivers, his blue robes stained with dust, no longer the refined gentleman he had once been.
He rescued her from the white silk noose.
From then on,
everyone knew that Pei Chenhuai, the noble son of a distinguished family, as elegant as an orchid and graceful as jade, had severed ties with his clan for the sake of a fallen empress.
He even fled with her for a thousand miles, and the two became a pair of fugitives in love.
Xue Yan had no idea that a respected and dignified gentleman would ruin his future for someone as unrelated to him as she was, cut off his own path for her, and lose his life.
Only in his final moments did Pei Chenhuai say,
