Red Plum Blossoms Stain a Thousand Feet of Snow

When they first met,

she was the beloved daughter of a duke's household.

He was a prince, disheveled and in distress.

She had no idea who he was, but he caught sight of the crest on her carriage.

She mistook him for a beggar by the roadside, gave him a piece of pastry, then had her maid press some travel money into his hands.

That piece of pastry warmed him for half his life, and he remembered it for the rest of his days.

Later on, he stopped at nothing to claim the highest position in the land, but his little girl no longer recognized him.