我心央央

The first thing Xie Lin An did after becoming the top scholar was to break off our engagement.

At that moment, I was still holding the hangover soup I had prepared for him. Upon hearing his words, I was stunned for a long time, long enough for the rim of the bowl to leave a mark on my hand, long enough for him to frown and softly call out to me:

“Ah-Yang?”

I came back to my senses at his call, then placed the bowl on the table and gently said:

“Okay.”

Later, I left the capital for two years. When I returned and saw him again, I respectfully called him “Cousin,” then walked behind him and grabbed the ear of the young general who had just returned from the battlefield:

“Bo Ji An! I told you not to drink because your wound hasn’t healed. Why are you ignoring the doctor’s orders again!”