short series

Mountains Have Trees, Trees Have Branches

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Lin Zhaozhao, a healer from Qingqiu Mountain, has secretly loved Gu Yanzhi, the Town Protector General who comes to gather herbs annually, for eight years. She embroidered her feelings into a 'wood and branch' sachet, hiding it close. Until Gu is ordered to marry the prime minister’s daughter. On the wedding eve, Zhaozhao takes a fatal stab for him—when the sachet falls out, Gu’s jade pendant reveals the same 'wood and branch' carving! He’d loved her too, but dared not confess, bound by the emperor’s 'dead soldier' order, fearing to drag her into danger. When Zhaozhao wakes, Gu has marched to the border, leaving a torn letter: 'Mountains have trees, I know your heart…' She treks to find him, only to see him bloodied in the camp—turns out he’d long planned to risk his life for a chance to be with her…

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