Zhuang Caiwei is a concubine. Due to her status, she has hidden ambitions. She grew up cautiously, obediently and prudently. What she knows best is one thing: pretending.
In the eyes of others, she is a sweet, lovely, delicate-looking girl with a crooked smile. In the winter, she will lift up her cloak of rabbit fur and smile at people, making people's hearts flutter.
At first, she wanted to betrothed to her cousin who was outstanding in appearance and defeated Ma Changan.
He finally got his cousin to take the bait, but his sister-in-law interfered, and his marriage and reputation were ruined.
Zhuang Caiwei was so angry that she sat in the room for three nights, then opened her eyes and came up with an idea.
She was going to hook up with her eldest sister's teacher, the famous Mr. Qu.
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Mr. Qu was a well-educated, stern, and taciturn man of the generation.
When his cousin saw him, he bowed his head and greeted him cautiously, while his sister-in-law was shy when she saw him.
His name is Zhen Shilin, his family background is noble, and he has no women in his eyes. This makes girls all over the world panic and move, and even Zhuang Caiwei's heart moves.
On a snowy night, she climbed up the bamboo window and secretly watched Mr. Qu practice calligraphy, but accidentally fell down.
She huddled up in the snow, her rabbit-like eyes red with tears, her hair blown by the cold wind, and she raised her sweet face to Mr. Qu who pushed the door open.
Mr. Qu asked her with his hands behind his hands, his robes being blown by the wind, and his voice was clear and low:
"What are you doing, miss?"
"Sir." She shed tears at the right time, her eyes clear and turbulent, "I want to learn from you."
He looked at her and was startled slowly.
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Later, Zhuang Caiwei tried her best to pretend to study hard when she was sitting in Mr. Qu's arms and being taught how to write by holding a pen.
When Mr. Qu held her pulse and spoke seriously to her in the bed with a calm but not boring voice, she also pretended to understand clearly and think deeply.
He boiled medicine for her, he put down his reading to massage her sore forearms, he thought carefully about preparing a big birthday gift for her, and he gave her the most satisfying calligraphy treasure that no celebrity in the world or the emperor could ask for.
Zhuang Caiwei actually learned a lot from Qu Xinhong, and gradually grew into a girl who lived not only by childish revenge, but also was elegant and dignified in her behavior.
So, she used her knowledge and insights to surrender to the fourth prince.
Later, she became the most valued female counselor around the fourth prince, and seemed to be the most popular candidate for the prince's concubine.
Zhuang Caiwei was very satisfied until one day, wearing a power fence on her head, she got off the carriage and went to the royal temple to offer incense.
A long figure stood under the ancient tree beside him, looking up at the tree. The ancient trees were towering into the sky, but he bent down and picked a weed in the snow under the tree.
The appearance was so familiar that her heart froze.
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Until he stepped onto the battlefield for the throne, Qu Xinhong didn't understand how much of it was for his unfulfilled ambition, and how much of it was for the red eyes that looked at him in the snow that year.
He twirled the weeds picked from the ground and went to the southern mountains to pick the weeds. He crushed the weeds between his fingertips.
Just like many of his later moments, he fought with the female official next to the fourth prince during the day and crushed the girl who always looked at him innocently in front of him. He watched her tremble, saw her angry, saw her eyes burning with hatred for him, and heard her bite him hard and say, "Qu Xinhong, you madman."
She is the blazing fire in the snow, but she was once regarded as a veil blown by the wind.
No one knew that they were from the same ancestry and were walking in opposite directions, shadowing each other. Only he could clearly see the threads that were constantly entangled between them.
He also saw that he had to bear what the young man Shen Xin had learned, and he did not practice the gentleman's way that he had sworn to do, just to regain the lost person.
From then on, he walked alone in thousands of mountains, rebelling against ethics and teachings and moving freely.
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Concept: dignified people need chaos