Chapter 19 Departure
Not long after that day, I bid farewell to my parents and left Chang'an.
Along the way, I often heard the people speak of the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess.
They said the two of them were a perfect match, deeply in love.
In my past life, I had been cursed at terribly.
The officials condemned me, the emperor and empress disliked me.
The people called me a femme fatale who had seduced the Crown Prince into abandoning his position just to marry me.
Even more so, for the first seventeen years I was a man.
Not long after I arrived in Jinling, Lu Yinchuan followed me.
He said, "You left so hastily that I did not even get to see you."
"That day I went to look for you, but I could not find you anywhere."
"I nearly went mad with worry. Do you know that?"
I answered, "I'm fine now, aren't I?"
He sighed, "You really are..."
"By the way, do you know how much effort it took for me to come here?"
I remembered something. "You really are not joining the army?"
"Jinling is wealthy and full of life. I like it here. I will not go anywhere else."
I did not know how in my past life he had decided to go to the desert.
In my second year in Jinling, a plague broke out in the city, killing many.
I was also infected.
Lu Yinchuan cared for me without taking off his clothes to rest.
That night, while I was half asleep, I felt a cold hand on my forehead.
At dawn, I heard that Zhao Yan had arrived.
He stayed here for half a month.
When he was about to leave, I went to send him off.
I poured him a cup of wine.
His hand paused in the air for a long time before he slowly took the cup and drank.
I drank two more cups and collapsed on the table.
Then I felt him carefully kiss my lips. "Take care."
The following spring, the Crown Prince passed away.
The Crown Princess remarried.
In faraway Jinling, I shed two tears.
The wine that day was not poisonous.
He had never been able to break his habit of stealing kisses.