After coming of age, the heir to each vassal state must go to the capital and study for three full years.
Jiang Yu, the only female heir among the seven kingdoms,
sets off for the capital with a hundred eggs her tribe saved up for her, hoping to repay the enormous debt her father incurred years ago.
Prices in Jingzhong are so high that Jiang Yu has to dig up wild vegetables in the palace's Bamboo Garden to supplement her meals. Instead, she digs up a secret hidden by the Crown Prince.
If she drops out now, can she get her tuition back?
Feeling the cold edge at her throat, Jiang Yu raises both hands. "Your Highness, let's talk this out. If you kill me, no one will repay the fifty eggs I owe you!"
The man's eyes are as cold as frost and snow, and he doesn't lower his sword. Jiang Yu steels herself. "...What if I add ten more?"
Xiao Bowen was born the Crown Prince. The world praises him as a gentleman as fine as jade, but he keeps people at a distance, as if a veil separates him from everyone he meets.
He feels little emotion and thinks that's for the best, at least compared to Jiang Yu.
Though she's a royal heir, she's laughably poor, and she loves finding loopholes and breaking palace rules, constantly making him break his vows and get punished.
Xiao Bowen: "Because of you, I've developed feelings that are utterly superfluous to me."
Jiang Yu: "How can you dress up being stingy in such grandiose language!? Before, you wouldn't even glance at the gentleman orchids you drowned. Now you want to bite my head off because I owe you ten taels of silver!"
Xiao Bowen: "Be quiet, and I'll take five taels off your debt."
Jiang Yu: "The Imperial Preceptor is as pure and bright as the moon. Splendid, splendid!"
He is a frail, withering tree. When he meets the bright sunshine, the white jade bodhi finally blooms.
Theme: Pursue love bravely
