“I lived in Wangdu for eleven years, but only three nights truly left their mark on me.”
“On the first night, I met her. On the second, I came to know her. On the third, I left her.”
When Xue Yusheng left Wangdu, it was night, and the rain fell in torrents. He looked back into the storm, but before he could glimpse that slender figure, the soldiers escorting him shoved him into the vast, rain-soaked darkness.
At the time, he had no idea that the greatest turning point of his life was just ahead.
He endured every kind of torment in prison and risked his life fighting on the battlefield without so much as a flicker of emotion. But when he emerged from a pile of corpses and finally returned to Wangdu, he saw her dressed in red, hand in hand with another man as they entered the wedding hall.
In that moment, Xue Yusheng’s very soul shattered.
Everyone in Wangdu knew that the newly powerful Xue Yusheng came from humble beginnings. He was the son of a gatekeeper at the Duke’s residence and had once been thrown into prison for violating a maid.
What they didn’t know was that beneath the pear blossoms in the rain that year, a young lady had once told him:
“Xue Yusheng, I’ll wait for you. I’ll wait forever, until the day you marry me.”
【Stoic young general × dazzling noble heiress】
Song Shiyan thought their meeting had been like the rain falling on pear blossoms in early spring: brief, but breathtaking.
She didn’t know that through all the years she had missed, someone had treasured and carefully kept every little moment they shared.
Reader’s note: One couple, one love interest each.
The hero’s imprisonment has more to it than meets the eye.
(Blurb written on 2024.10.25)
Theme: Though we live as mayflies, may I sing as gracefully as Xie Daoyun.
