C696
King Qin had already walked to the bedside. Seeing that she was sleeping soundly, he lit a candle. In the flickering candlelight, he saw the face under the quilt, so pale. Her long eyelashes drooped down, covering her green eyelids like a cicada that had been flying for too long. A cicada, in its larva, must stay in the dark depths of the earth for several years. Eventually, one day