Chapter 494 - 12.102
[Music Recommendation: Butterfly Lovers, best Ancient Chinese music/play, personal opinion btw. Hehe.]
Three months had passed since that invasion, and Huang Shu finally got the news about his mother’s assassination. Fortunately, his Emperor Father helped him to cover it, saying it was a suicide.
It was spring, and the spring flower was blooming beautifully with their fresh scent wafted on everyone’s noses.
Huang Shu had been naturally promoted as second-in-command for his deed of defeating the leader of the barbarians. Even without his birthright as a prince, he still rose up in rank because of his capability.
Thus, nobody was protesting when he got promoted.
Meanwhile, Bai Yunyu continued studying strategy and was already well versed in theory. However, he focused more on the defense for the garrisons rather than invasion.
So he was helping many commanders to strengthen their stations nowadays.
One more, Bai Yunyu and Huang Shu were now staying in the same courtyard together. The reason was that Huang Shu wanted to be Yunyu’s personal guard, although the real reason... only they knew the real reason behind it.
Huang Shu and Bai Yunyu were sitting under a cherry blossom tree whose pink petals bloomed beautifully. Huang Shu was sitting on the grassy patch, leaning against the cherry blossom tree, while Yunyu played with his Guqin.
They were enjoying the beautiful spring after a bloody winter. Huang Shu closed his eyes, listening to Yunyu playing the Guqin. He remembered the song that Yunyu was playing, Butterfly Lovers. It was from a famous play, about a pair of lovers whose love wasn’t accepted by their parents, and the woman was about to get married off to another man.
The man died of heartbreak, and when the wedding carriage passed the man’s grave, a thunderstorm suddenly blew everything away. The woman, who was about to be someone else’s bride, went to her beloved’s grave. The grave was opened, and she jumped in to join her beloved man.