The Palace Walls Are Covered with Snow, Old Friends Return

In the winter of the twenty-seventh year of Yong'an, heavy snow sealed the three city gates of Gyeonggi Province. Shen Qingci knelt in front of the east palace gate. The snow fell all over her plain mourning clothes, and also covered the last light in her eyes. There was a warm furnace in the palace. Prince Xiao Heng was dressed in black court clothes. His fingertips were rubbing the Begonia sachet she had embroidered by her own hands. Hearing the announcement from the chamberlain, he simply said: "No." She and him were once childhood sweethearts, and they were once sworn brothers, but now there is only a wall between them, and they are so close to each other that they will never see each other again in life or death.