It is death!
[Present]
The ominous clouds fill the sky. Lightenings brighten the sky for an instant before all the lights are snuffed out. Darkness spreads out as the air is electrified with a strange sensation. Rue-Yim sits up abruptly, frowning in the dark. She lifts the curtains and looks out. The stream is frozen but the fog is diminishing. The nights in this world are unusually long.
After Wang Si brought her back to her courtyard, she was lead back to her room by her 'maids'. Even if she has never lived this kind of life, she knows that she is being treated as a prisoner -- not a wife of a government official. However, Rue Yim doesn't mind it as much as she did before she found out that she is Wang Si's wife. She can't wait for tomorrow. But something else has arrived before the lovely tomorrow.