An Old Friend Returns Amid a Thousand Lanterns

Everyone knew that Shen Xianyue, the prime minister’s legitimate daughter, had been infatuated with the heir to Prince Duan for three whole years, never caring about the gossip or the ridicule of the capital. But no one knew that the tenderness in her eyes had always been meant for someone else. When the heir discussed marriage and humiliated her in public, she finally understood that the man before her was no longer the person she once knew, and resolutely walked away. Later, the heir knelt in the rain, his eyes red. “Just look at me once more, for the sake of this face.” The man rumored to have died in battle appeared with an imperial decree of marriage and shielded Shen Xianyue. “She need only look at me.”