“I shall miss this,” she finally said.
“Miss what?” he asked.
“The easy comfort we have,” she said. “Your visits to my home. The way you look at me when you think I can’t see you from the corner of my eye.”
He blushed, not even realizing he had been staring at her.
“Just because I am marrying Swan doesn’t mean that I won’t ever see you again,” he said.
“I know,” she said. “But everything will change.”
He wasn’t sure how to respond to that. He knew she was right, but he was certain that his life would change in ways he hadn’t even considered yet.
“My mother will call on you soon to finish the marriage arrangements,” he said.
“I will be here waiting,” she said.
He gave her a bow and then crossed the garden and walked out the gate.
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Born in the middle of nowhere, Yaqian, a little embroidery girl from Hunan Province, finds her way to the imperial court, a place of intrigue, desire, and treachery. From the bed of an Emperor, the heart of a Prince, and the right side of an Empress, Yaqian weaves her way through the most turbulent decades of China’s history and witnesses the fall of the Qing Dynasty.
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