For Yours Is the Dearest Corner of the World

Though Nie Mingjue’s outpost is over twelve thousand li from the capital, he returns to his clan’s ancestral residence in Youzhou every other summer.

It was foolishness to undertake the journey so often merely because he had received a special dispensation to do so: or so his father’s fellow generals said. On horseback, it was a three months’ ride to Youzhou; but Nie Mingjue never counts the days, for the beloved of his life still dwells in the house where they played together as children.Or: a winter reunion, and a life-long dream.