Who is the woman who died in the snow with a sword in the reeds?

She is Chen Wang's first love. There is no name in the work. She is called "that woman" in the book.

When Chen Wang was still a penniless scholar, he often sat at the shady ferry covered with reeds and read, and she would often listen to him reading while pounding clothes.

Later Chen Wang went to Beijing to take the exam and told her that he would definitely come back to marry her, but Chen Wang broke his promise and married another woman.

After that, Chen Wang became a spy. In order to force Chen Wang to show up, his opponent harmed the woman. However, in order not to expose Chen Wang, Beiliang watched the woman being killed. Among the reeds.

Description in the book:

For so many years, what he feared most was not the unpredictable Emperor, nor the introverted Prince, nor the all-pervasive one. Zhao Gou.

He was most afraid of talking in his sleep, afraid that he would call out her name, and even more afraid that the path he chose with so much passion at that time would implicate that graceful woman far away in Beiliang.

She once blushed but told him seriously that if they got married in the future, he would not be allowed to do farm work. Why? Because he is a scholar.

Chen Wang squeezed the piece of Qinan tightly, his lips trembled, and he closed his eyes. The heavy snow in the middle of winter was still covering his shoulders, not to mention that he didn't pay attention to the falling snow at all.