I am the second prince of the Yan Kingdom, but I grew up in a military camp outside the palace. The life there was very simple and free, so I was almost an adult without knowing it.
According to the regulations, I had to return to the palace one year before the adult ceremony, that is, I returned to the palace in the spring when I was fourteen years old.
Perhaps because I was used to being free outside the palace, after returning to the palace, I finally felt that the splendid city was like a cage, bound by all kinds of etiquette. I wanted to go to the palace for a few days, but my mother and concubine finally refused to agree, so I was depressed all day long.
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One day, I suddenly wanted to go to the palace garden to relax, but I didn’t want to meet those obedient palace people, so I walked alone on a remote path. When I arrived at a cherry blossom garden, I suddenly heard the sweet laughter of nature coming from the cherry blossoms.
came from deep in the garden.
I couldn't help being curious, so I approached quietly and saw a little girl swinging there. The cherry blossom petals were dancing gracefully with the airflow caused by the swing. I thought I was in a fairyland and met a fairy.
When the girl turned to look at the palace maid pushing the swing behind her, I finally saw her face clearly. Before seeing her, I thought Concubine Liu was the most beautiful woman in the world, but this girl was even more beautiful than the most beautiful woman in the world.
Women are more beautiful.
She is so beautiful that she is pure, beautiful, and breathtaking.
When I wanted to walk over, she and her maid walked away, and the cherry blossom petals that were flying in the air fell feebly.
Who is she? Who is she? Who is she? This question always echoes in my mind, but there is no answer.
From then on, I went there every day, but never saw her again.
When spring comes, the cherry blossom garden is no longer full of red clouds, and green leaves gradually occupy the field of vision.
I always look forward to seeing her again. The days that I originally thought were boring finally have hope. Sometimes I even wonder if God will allow me to meet her by chance, even as a fifteen-year-old adult.
A gift, but it is ultimately a fantasy.
The fifteenth-year-old coming-of-age ceremony soon came, and the day passed without any suspense. I didn't see her at the banquet in the evening. I knew that she was not old enough to attend the coming-of-age ceremony, but I was still a little disappointed.
Seventeen years old, it has been three years. I have been looking for her for these three years, but I have never found her shadow. Just when I thought I was destined to never meet her again in this life, she appeared unexpectedly.
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At that time, she was wearing a tight-fitting light red dress with a large hem, and a long light red ribbon. There were no jewels in her buns, but they were tied randomly with a light red ribbon, just like a fairy.
Compared with the first time, she was more beautiful and more pure. But the moment I saw her, my sleeping heart seemed to wake up, but it was stung hard again: that one made me dream.
More than a thousand people day and night are actually my biological sisters.
Happy? Painful? I don’t know how to express my feelings at that time. Maybe it was painful but also happy. But I think I will never be able to fall in love with anyone else in this life.
"The envoy from the State of Chu came to ask for peace." A man's voice pulled me back from my thoughts. I remember this man, he was Prince Shuo of the State of Chu, Zheng Sheng.
"The State of Chu is asking for a marriage, does it want one of my beloved daughters to marry, and who is the marriage partner?" asked the father in the palace.
"The little princess of your country is marrying the emperor of our country." Zheng Sheng replied calmly.
Emperor Zheng Yi of the Chu State, who is over fifty years old, actually wants her to marry him. This is absolutely not allowed. I wish I could throw that man to death on the spot. However, the person who makes the decision is not me, but the superior father, but he is too late.
Too late to speak.
Will he agree? Will she be sent for marriage? I am waiting for my father's answer, and I think she is waiting too.
"What if I don't agree?" This answer is what I expected, and she should also expect it.
"Isn't Emperor Yan worried that your words will plunge the entire Yan Kingdom into war?" The man spoke again.
I thought silently in my heart: Even if she died in battle, I would not let her get married.
"Prince Shuo, have you ever thought about how the people of the world would think of the Emperor of Chu if Chu started a war because Yan refused to agree to a marriage?" She said to the man with a smile.
That smile was so beautiful, and the man's eyes were staring straight at her, and all the men in the palace couldn't take their eyes away. For some reason, at that time, I just wanted to hide her from those men, but all this
Just thinking about it.
"Lewd and immoral." She uttered these words slowly, but the man was speechless. Unlike the women she had seen before, she was not only beautiful, but also brave and intelligent.