夫人别逃 Madam, Don't Run

大周年间，礼教如网。四公主李瑶本该是宗室手里最顺从的一枚棋子，却在沈微宁即将嫁入东宫的前夜，第一次违了整座宫廷的意思。沈微宁的婚约是家族递上去的投名状，她本人只是那纸婚书上落着的一个名字。一个不肯认命，一个不敢认命——最初，她们只是交换了一个"逃"字。In the Great Zhou, propriety was a net with no slack. Fourth Princess Li Yao was meant to be the most obedient piece on the clan's board — until the night before Shen Weining was to enter the Eastern Palace, when she defied the entire court for the first time. Shen Weining's betrothal was her family's offering of loyalty; she was merely a name written on the contract. One refused to accept her fate, one did not dare to. At first, all they exchanged was a single word: run.

宗室的弹章、外敌的马蹄、宫墙内外的耳目，一层层压下来。她们要争的从来不是一顶凤冠，而是往后几十年能不能按自己的意思活。"守着初心"这句话说出来很轻，做起来是拿整个人生去押。Memorials from the clan, hooves at the border, eyes on both sides of the palace wall — the pressure came down layer by layer. What they fought for was never a phoenix crown, but the right to live the next few decades on their own terms. "Holding to your first intent" is a light thing to say and a whole life to wager.

等到海晏河清那一天，两个人才敢并肩站在城楼上，把山河当作共往的路。Only when the seas were calm and the rivers clear did the two of them dare stand shoulder to shoulder on the city wall, and take the whole landscape as a road to walk together.