Where I couldn't see, Yu Shaoqing's hand beneath his white robes and wide sleeves was clenched into a fist, as if he were restraining something.
He was never a liar.
...
"Ling Ran!"
"Ling Ran!"
With only two days left until the day she was to be married off, Ling Shuang shook off the guards who were following her and disguised herself as a man to stand outside the Anyang Prince's Mansion.
"Lingran, I know you're inside. Please come out and see me, okay?" she pleaded.
"How dare you! How dare you act so presumptuously outside the Prince of Anyang's residence!" The guards at the gate, unaware of her identity, ruthlessly drove her away.
She dared not reveal her identity for fear of being watched, so she pleaded, "Brother guard, could you please inform them for me?"
"Just say I'm looking for Ling Ran's bodyguard."
The guard replied impatiently, "He's not here!"
"Where did he go?"
"I don't know!" came the usual cold reply.
Ling Shuang looked like a wilted eggplant.
A wave of grievance and sadness washed over her, and the thought that she would never see him again made her feel unbearably sad.
She squatted weakly at the entrance of the Prince of Anyang's mansion, her head almost touching the ground.
"I just want to see you!"
"I am a princess, and my mission is to bring peace and harmony between our two countries. I know this, and I have always known it."
"I thought I would spend these fifteen years in a dull and boring way, and then go to marry a foreign ruler as arranged by my father."
"But I met you, and you were like a ray of light that pierced through the darkness, illuminating my life."
As they talked, the sky began to change without them even realizing it...
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