"He could catch the poison that brought death, but he couldn't catch the peach blossoms when he was fourteen years old."
[The paranoid general attacks x the sick and weak counselor suffers | Ancient style power strategy BE]
If Chu Huaijin had known that the jade pendant would be shattered into a pool of blood in the imperial prison, he would rather never have met that person.
In the spring of the sixth year of Yonghe, the Xuanjia army returned triumphantly. The streets of Chang'an City were deserted. Chu Huaijin was sitting high on his horse, the newly forged tiger talisman around his waist hurting.
At the palace banquet, he glanced coldly at Shen Mubai's trembling fingertips.
But he didn't know that the man's sleeve was hiding a candy wrapper he had written back then. Now the handwriting had been blurred by the medicine: "It's not bitter."
——Later, Shen Mubai died on a snowy night, with moldy rock candy pressed under his pillow; Chu Huaijin died in battle, with dried peach blossoms stuck to the inner layer of his armor.
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