An Ancient Wedding

She was sleeping naked, her mind calm and undisturbed, when an earthquake struck without warning. In the chaos, she and the cherry tree beside her bed plunged deep into the earth… In 1644, Emperor Kangxi and his ministers were offering sacrifices to Heaven and hunting… When she awoke, she found herself lying naked beneath a towering cherry tree, with a boy in imperial yellow standing opposite her… A history unknown to later generations, a political struggle that shook the world, and a moving love song… He was an emperor of the seventeenth century; she was a master’s student from the twenty-first.