After his footsteps stopped, he crouched down, gazing intently at the only flower bud left in the field.
It was the same one he had once destroyed.
After Lu Yuan replanted it, it didn't wither and die as Lu Yuan had feared, but it never regained the vigor of the other flower stalks.
So both he and Lu Yuan unconsciously gave it extra care.
Now, all the other Wine Heart Buds had bloomed and been harvested, yet this one still weakly struggled to bear its bud.
It was still alive.
He wasn't particularly sentimental.
If it died, it died, but surviving—
Tang Ziqian took out a small knife he carried with him and gently prodded the soil with the back of the knife.
Like what Lu Yuan had once done...
...
In early December, an envoy came from the capital.
The visitor was Yu Jun.
By order of Empress Tang, he delivered the Chengying Sword, along with Chu Girl Lu Yuan.
"Where is Chu Girl Lu Yuan?" Yu Jun asked while quietly sizing up Tang Ziqian.
