When This Song Ends, I Will Never Play It Again

One song of this fleeting life can bring peace to the realm. Amid the turmoil of the mortal world, who will rule its rise and fall? In an age of chaos, calamity determines the fate of the realm. How many dynasties have seen imperial ambitions end in beauty fading and bones buried? Along the winding road of the martial world, half a lifetime of distant love, across a vast land, how many devoted hearts will be crushed, despite their unwavering loyalty?

Some people capture your heart at first sight. Some loves are impossible to take back once they begin. Ten years of searching, three years of waiting, years spent at war, standing together through life and death.

After a passionate love comes a quiet life, but all those days spent side by side end with one of them leaving without a word.

Xiao Xinyi watched the man she had once loved stand upon the supreme throne he had once scorned, surrounded by the very women he had once dismissed. With one last glimmer of hope, she asked, "Is there some reason you have to do this?"

The man, his face hidden behind the strings of his crown, looked confused. "What reason? I don't know what you're talking about."

"You once said I was the only woman you would ever recognize as your wife."

"You are still my only wife. The others are merely there to keep the court in balance."

"Why have you become like this?"

"I've always been this way. I've never changed."

"You once said you would grow old with me in the mountains."

"That was just something I said in my youthful foolishness."

So be it, then.

Years later, she finally learned the reason. But their love had been deep and their fate shallow. Since destiny refused to treat them kindly, let this be the end of their song. They would never meet again.