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Only the Longing Remains

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Su Wan, an embroideress from a Gusu workshop, fell in love at first sight with Gu Zhaoyuan, a scholar heading to the capital for the imperial exam. They exchanged half a jade pendant as a promise before parting. But Gu vanished for three years, and rumors said he’d passed the exam and married a high official’s daughter. Yet Su stayed, embroidering handkerchiefs with “Longing” every day to send to the capital. Until one day, a wounded man holding the other half of the jade pendant pushed open the workshop door—he’d been ambushed and stranded in the borderlands, too afraid of burdening her to reach out. After three years of执念 and waiting, the long-overdue reunion finally came, woven into the handkerchief embroidered with red beans.

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