The Goddess is Sweet and Aloof
Chapter 319 - Chapter 319 Chapter 319 Prime Minister for Life_1

Chapter 319: Chapter 319: Prime Minister for Life_1 Chapter 319: Chapter 319: Prime Minister for Life_1 Such a voice, full of deep affection, spoken from his lips for the first time. The figure trembles, suddenly letting out a faint sigh, “I didn’t think that after ten years, I still couldn’t erase his image from your heart.”

It was his wife, Fang Qianping.

She knew from the day she married him, that his heart was already occupied by another.

She steps forward, adding a layer of clothing for him. Jun Lin is still dazed, the vision of that person’s dance under the Phoenix Tree, just like the moment they first met many years ago, suddenly appearing before his eyes.

Such grace, such beauty.

Every movement, every expression of Nangong Qin seemed to be deeply engraved in his mind. No matter how he fooled himself, telling himself that he loved Fang Qianping, he still could not deceive his own heart.

Fang Qianping’s eyes resembled hers, her nose, resembled hers, but in the end… she was just not the same person. He could fool her until death, he could fool everyone else in the world, but only his heart, he couldn’t deceive.

So, she had really left.

“Qinqin…”

He tries reaching out, but catches nothing. Snow begins to fall, he smiles at the sight, and suddenly collapses into the snow. The plum blossom in his hand slips away, buried beneath the snow.

Fang Qianping’s urgent voice in his ears can’t pull him back, his face reflecting a joyful smile for the first time.

Qinqin, will you come fetch me? I know, I know that you have always blamed me for not taking you away from the Nangong Family. All of this, perhaps, is the arrangement of fate. If only I could have abandoned everything and left with you – perhaps our end wouldn’t be like this.

What about the emperor brother, what about immortality, they were all ephemeral… but when I finally understood, our faces were already unrecognizable.

In fact, we are both wounded. That year, on the night of Qixi, you asked me what I wrote in the lantern, I said, “hope for the peace of the state and the wellbeing of the king”

I saw your disappointed face, as if you were somewhat upset that my wish had nothing to do with you.

In fact, how could my wishes have nothing to do with you? My wish is to be by your side forever, in harmony.

Many years later, I was still able to watch you from afar.

I could hear about you from time to time; in this lifetime, I am already satisfied.

This time, I finally have a chance… to be with you openly…

My… Qinqin…

She was gone, how could he continue to live in this world alone? In the same year, a rumor in the royal capital says that the prince contracted a severe illness and died at home. It was said that at the time of his death, he asked his family to burn his body to ashes and spread them near the Imperial Mausoleum. The custom of burning bodies was seen as scandalous in ancient times, but Jun Lin insisted nonchalantly.

The world didn’t know the significance of this act, only Fang Qianping understood – he was guarding over her tomb in another way, forever.

Having the world beneath his rule is not as satisfying as spending a lifetime with Qinqin.

After completing this with teary eyes, Fang Qianping, with her son, entered the palace and was promoted to first-class consort. After the death of the new emperor, her son ascended to the throne, and Fang Qianping was elevated to the rank of Empress Dowager, remaining alone for the rest of her life.

Now the world truly belonged to the House of Jun Lin. Fang Qianping poured a cup of thin wine under the plum blossom tree, fulfilling Nangong Qin’s former dream.

This is the final plotline, after the scriptwriter’s adaptation, with Nangong Qin essentially becoming one of two female leads.