In the twelfth month of the twenty‑second year of Jiayuan, the Royal Family and Duke Chen's Residence officially settled on the wedding date: the sixth day of the second month of the coming year.
In other words.
This would be the last New Year the Third Princess spent in the palace.
The Third Princess Yijing was, like her name, gentle and quiet if one spoke kindly of her, or, if not, simply someone who did not like to talk.
Perhaps because her experiences since childhood had been too rough, her whole person seemed somewhat withdrawn.
She did not like to interact with people, nor did she enjoy joking and laughing.
She was neither as lively and spirited as the Second Princess Yi'an, nor as arrogant and domineering as the Fourth Princess Lele.
What she liked to do most every day was take a book and sit by the window, either staring off into space or silently shedding tears—she had no small share of a young maiden's melancholy.
