She and Lian Xichen returned to the front hall. Han Litong was still seated in the same position as she was before, her eyes vacant and staring blankly at nothing. Ying Niang knelt beside her, silently shedding tears.
She signaled Lan Ling and the others to leave. Even after she walked out of the Great Hall, Han Litong couldn't regain her senses.
The empty palace, desolate and lonely, should have been a place of warmth and harmony.
If she hadn't abandoned Han Jing back then, if she hadn't lost the courage to live on because of those painful experiences, if she hadn't chosen suicide... would everything have been different?
She, Brother Fengxi, Qingjue, and Han Jing could have lived happily together in this magnificent palace. She would still be the proud princess she once was.
But what about the reality?
