Chapter 15: Old and New

Ultimately, she abandoned her schemes, relinquished the carefully laid plans of a lifetime, and chose love. She married, lived for love, and was willing to die for love.

可是最后，她放弃了谋略，放弃了精心布置一生心血的棋盘，而选择了爱，嫁给了爱，为爱而生，也肯为爱而死。

Imperial Noble Consort Cui lamented in frustration as she left, "I truly misjudged her. I thought I had found an unparalleled, gifted beauty, but in the end, she turned out to be the most stupid rock. I wasted half my life nurturing her, truly blinding myself!"

她离开了，崔贵妃愤愤地恨铁不成钢道：“本宫真是看错了人，原以为自己捡了块天资聪颖举世无双的美玉，没有想到最后是块最傻最笨的臭石头，枉费了本宫半生心血一心栽培，当真是自己瞎了眼，瞎了眼啊！”

Upon learning of Cui Yu''s departure, Crown Prince Liu Hao wasn''t angry but simply said, "I did not misjudge her. She is intelligent and courageous, daring to love and hate, unburdened by status and worldly constraints. The only pity is that I met her too late."

太子刘昊在得知崔玉的离开并没有生气，只是淡淡地道：“孤果然没有看错她，她聪明果敢，敢爱敢恨，不为身份所累，不为世俗所困，只是可惜的是孤认识她认识得太晚了。”

Liu Hao had never lost to Zhang Guoying. What he failed to was time, the starting point, and the beginning.

他刘昊从来都没有输给他张国英，他输给的是时间，是起点，是开始。

He was well aware that Cui Yu was different from the Imperial Noble Consort in the palace. While Cui Yu inherited the consort''s cunning and intellect, she did not possess her ambition. In fact, her true nature was that of a quiet and reserved person. But when such a person truly falls in love, she would remain devoted to the end, facing all challenges willingly unless the person of her affection fails to cherish and appreciate her. Otherwise, no outsider could find an opportunity to take advantage.

因为他很清楚崔玉和宫中的皇贵妃不同，崔玉继承了皇贵妃的谋略和头脑，可是却没有皇贵妃的野心，她的真性情其实是一个非常冷清的人，只是这样一个人一旦真的爱上一个人，就会至死不变，上刀山下火海也甘之如饴，除非对方不懂珍惜，辜负了她，若非如此，旁人再无可乘之机。

Liangzhou

凉州

Since his rebellion and escape from the capital, Zhang Guoying had followed his father southward to Liangzhou, beginning a life away from home.

张国英自从叛逃京城后，一路随父亲南下逃到了凉州，开始了背井离乡的生涯。