Guanshan Wuji

The magnolia blooms in the deep palace of Yong'an every year, and the love of youth has been entrusted with half a lifetime's expectations. Princess Jiayi's companionship in the palace since she was a child was the only solace for the eldest prince Chen Shujing during his long years as a prince. They discussed poems in the garden, went to appointments with Shangyuan, and made secret promises for the rest of their lives. Both of them thought that they would be able to stay together for a while after surviving the turmoil in the court. But the smoke suddenly rose in northern Xinjiang, and all promises were torn apart by a piece of imperial edict of peace and marriage. His Majesty used the country as a bargaining chip to force him to marry the Princess of Northern Liang to stabilize the border; she did not want to stay in the capital to watch her sweetheart get married, so she decided to go to the Western Regions to become the crown prince of a foreign land, in exchange for peace in the Central Plains. Passing each other on the long street of the palace gate, the red robes and the Chinese skirts looked at each other from a distance. From then on, they were separated by thousands of miles of mountains. He sat in the tower of Northern Xinjiang, guarded an empty house for the rest of his life, treasured an orchid handkerchief for half his life, refused to accept his concubine, and was trapped in memories for the rest of his life; She lives in the palace of the Western Regions, dressed in a gorgeous exotic dress with tails, sitting in honor, but every night she writes letters home that she dare not send in the direction of the Central Plains, locking her young love deep in a wooden box. After half a lifetime, there are no words to express my love, and there is no way to meet each other in the mountains and seas. When the bones were buried in the yellow sand and the magnolia was gone, he traveled all over the yellow sands of the Western Regions to find her solitary grave, and then he realized that mountains and rivers are easy to come by, but the heartbeat of a young man is hard to find. This is a companion piece to "The Mistake of the Country", which tells the story of a pair of gentle people who were separated from each other by their family and country under the imperial power.