The Life-Borrowing Princess Consort and the Powerful Minister Who Blossomed Like a Dead Tree

Everyone knows that Su Qingwan, the Regent's Princess Consort, is as frail as paper, plagued by illness and unlikely to live past twenty. They also fear Xie Linyuan, the Regent, whose overwhelming aura of death is said to bring ruin to all living things. He is a god of calamity who has returned from the dead. But no one knows that he was slain on the battlefield ten years ago, and that sheer obsession bound his soul to his bones. He has neither lifespan nor vitality; day and night, his flesh rots and his soul aches, and no one in the world can go near him. She was born with a flawed fate, a borrowed-life vessel who gives her own years to others. She has spent half her life burning through her lifespan, plagued by illness with no cure in the world. The forces of yin and yang clash; all things wither in his presence. Only she is the one remedy that can restore his life. The blessings and longevity of the mortal world have all forsaken her, while the six realms of reincarnation have all rejected him. A fateful marriage, plotted in defiance of Heaven, binds two people abandoned by the natural order together. She nourishes his withered bones with her fading life, granting him peace year after year; He shatters the laws of Heaven with his obsession, protecting her and granting her a complete life. The world laments that they are destined to destroy each other, never knowing that His withered bones live again in her presence, and her dwindling life is renewed through him. The only true salvation in this world is to defy Heaven and remain together through life and death. This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.