Ye Cheng reminisced about the past, as if it were all still right before his eyes. "I never imagined I would see this day. It's my big brother who gave me everything I have now. After Li Xian became the Crown Prince, the ministers attacked me countless times, and it was always my big brother who defended me and believed in me. How could he just be gone like this?"
In just a few short days of keeping vigil, Ye Cheng had already lost a lot of weight. After that, he no longer had the heart to stay in the capital and instead returned to Jing'an City.
Before leaving he went to see Ye Lu. Ye Lu was no longer the high-spirited, arrogant concubine of Prince Linsan she used to be. She had grown old, become an utterly ordinary Old Lady. Ever since Chen Gaoxuan died, with no one left to quarrel with her, she had become even more withdrawn.
