A young woman crouched by the lakeside, holding an infant, softly cooing to the baby as they played. The night wind stirred her clothes, brushed past her cheeks.
She was like clear water.
She smiled gracefully by the lakeside, making Liu Wenji’s heart skip a beat, the world becoming blank and silent because of her.
When she heard movement from this direction, thinking she had offended someone important, she hurriedly held her swaddled infant tighter, rising to look this way. Her first reaction was to bow and beg forgiveness, but when she saw who had come, she froze in shock—
Chunhua stared blankly at Liu Wenji.
Liu Wenji’s sudden, unexpected appearance.
Across the palace servants, across the court people, across the pavilions and pond vegetation, she held her child, the maternal radiance on her face draining like blood.
She looked at Liu Wenji in his palace servant’s robes, forgetting even her infant’s sudden crying—
“Your Grace?” the young palace servant questioned Liu Wenji uncertainly.
Everyone was startled awake.
Night birds resting on the lake took flight in alarm, Chunhua hurriedly lowered her head to comfort her crying child, while Liu Wenji suddenly turned away, striding quickly in another direction.
Liu Wenji walked extremely fast, the night becoming especially cold, so he walked faster and faster.
Dense clouds pressed heavily overhead, thunder rumbling at the horizon. Liu Wenji walked quickly in the suffocating silence, looking down at his palace servant’s robes, and the bloodstains on his clothes.
Then thinking of Chunhua just now, holding her child, playing by the lake. Happy, carefree.
She was still so beautiful and perfect, while he had fallen into the abyss, sinking deeper and deeper.
Walking in the darkness, Liu Wenji’s tears fell from his eyes.
Silent and endless, the tears grew more numerous, blurring his vision—
My heart breaks for them both.
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