News Shocks the Capital

"A lone man drank amid the flowers—who was he grieving for, who was he sorrowing for?" A voice drifted softly over.

Princess Yufeng's wine cup trembled lightly in her hand. She turned her beautiful eyes and saw Lin Su.

The moment she saw Lin Su, Princess Yufeng sprang to her feet. Perhaps the wine had already gone three parts of the way into her belly; she lost her balance and nearly fell. Lin Su reached out and caught her by the shoulder.

Princess Yufeng said softly, "At this moment, I truly should not be sad. In the past, there were a thousand mountains and evening snows between us. Today, there is only a wall separating us. Though that wall is still like a thousand mountains and ten thousand rivers, I have finally caught his scent."

She was speaking of her elder brother.

In the past, her brother had been in Mei Ling, separated from her by ten thousand rivers and a thousand mountains, where birds could scarcely fly and fish and dragons could not cross.

For a long time, the only family she had in this world had been nothing more than a symbol in Mei Ling.

But today, her brother had entered Lingyin Temple, and she now shared the western mountain winds with him.

Yet she did not dare enter Lingyin Temple, because she knew that her brother's arrival in the capital would touch the most sensitive nerve of the one within the palace.

Her emotions were incomparably complicated—joy, worry, fear, and confusion...

Everything had turned into a cup of wine unknown to outsiders, melting into her sorrowful entrails.

Outsiders did not know these things, but he was not an outsider. He knew!

Lin Su sat down, picked up a wine cup, poured himself a cup, and tipped back