Volume 6, Chapter 5: Withered Flowers by the River

　　After the Princess joined Yong, she stood guard over Yanmen for twenty years and repeatedly sallied forth to hara.s.s the barbarians in the steppe. Whenever the barbarians met her, they felt their souls detach from them and called her a Blood Rakshaka.

　　Ceremonial Consort w.a.n.g Ji was originally from Chu. An orphan, he was left wandering dest.i.tute in Jianye. Afterwards, he became a retainer to Jiang Zhe and became the head of the eight elites. On Jiang Zhe’s orders, he entered the barbarian lands to scout for military intelligence and became renowned on the frontier as “Divine Doctor Bo Le.” By chance, he met the Princess in Daizhou and fell in love in the Eastern Sea. Unfortunately, because they served different masters, they were torn apart. When Ji later learned that the Princess was embroiled in b.l.o.o.d.y battle at Yanmen, he sobbingly requested permission from Zhe to join his beloved in death in Daizhou. Zhe had no choice but to agree. Ji abandoned his future and traveled to Yanmen to help the Princess defend the pa.s.s. Just as Yanmen was about to fall, Yuanting was moved by Ji’s love and wed the Princess to Ji on the battlefield. After the Princess surrendered to Yong, Ji remained at Yanmen to a.s.sist the defenses on imperial order, serving as the Princess’s deputy.

　　

At the beginning, the Princess did not become pregnant and there were those who advised Ji to take concubines to carry on his lineage. Ji refused, stating, “I have no relatives and have no worries about continuing my line.” When the Princess heard this, she wept. Ultimately, she could not bear to see Ji without an heir and personally selected daughters from good families. Ji irately departed and did not return for half a month. Only then did the Princess stop.

—Yong Dynastic Records, Biography of the Crimson Clouds Princess