Royal Engagement: The Honeymoon Chronicles

The Consort

GQ CHINA

Feng Jian Yu. Seven months ago, this name was unknown to everyone. Common. Ordinary.

But one morning changes everything when the Royal Family announces the engagement of the Crown Prince to his childhood playmate and the man who holds the ring of the late King Wang Dao.

Feng Jian Yu. Suddenly, the man owning this name became the subject of everyone's curiosity. Who is he? What is his history? And more importantly...

Why will the Crown Prince marry a man like him?

The Consort agreed to an interview with us inside the place where every reporter and media people will be comfortable inside the Palace. The press conference room.

Self confessed commoner, Feng Jian Yu is actually not new to living in the Palace.

Interviewer: The Prince said that he met you when you were only four years old. What is the story behind that?

Feng Jian Yu: My grandfather was the Royal Chauffer of King Dao back in the days. My father is one of King Lei's closest friends. When I was four, my grandfather took me to his work...I don't know if it's "take your kids to work" celebration that day...I am not sure but I distinctly remember meeting Wang Qing and Lao in the entrance of the maze garden.

Interviewer: And do you remember how they received you?

Feng Jian Yu: They were mean to me. I remember being in a room filled with toys with adults looking at us. I think they were nannies. And I remember Qing and Lao taking all the toys that I touched. I remember falling and crying that day.

Interviewer: That must be traumatic.

Feng Jian Yu: No. Because the next day I am crying for my GrandPa to take me back to the Palace to play with the Prince. So...I think it's not that traumatic. Either that or I am just too stupid to realize that I should not have come back.

Interviewer: So you grew up with the Prince.

Feng Jian Yu: (nodding) Until I was nine and then my GrandPa died and we have to move. My Baba didn't continue the tradition of our family of serving the Royal Family. He works as a company employee. So we have to move because of his job and I lost contact with the Prince.

Interviewer: And you grew up as a commoner.

Feng Jian Yu: That I did.

Interviewer: You never tried to contact the Prince while growing up away from the Palace?

Feng Jian Yu: (nodding) Yes, because back then I thought I am just another playmate for the Prince and can be replaced easily. They can find another playmate for Qing and he won't even miss me. So...yeah...

Interviewer: But you left with something truly special in hand.

Feng Jian Yu: (chuckling) Yes, King Dao's wedding ring. We played that video on our engagement ceremony. How I put a torn curtain in my head to play the bride. I demanded a ring so Qing went to King Dao and the late King gave Qing his wedding ring with a Royal decree on it.

Interviewer: You think King Dao predicted it...that you will end up with the Consort's Crown in your head?

Feng Jian Yu: I don't know. I told Qing, I believe our story was bouyed by fate. We were guided by something more powerful than our wills. We met when we were young, got separated and then meet again. A fifteen year separation is no joke...anything could have happened in those years we were apart yet fate still found us and brought us back together.