Shen Shanhai

In the autumn of the eleventh year of Dazhong, the censor's daughter Su Mingzhan was convicted because of her father's outspoken remonstrance, and the whole family was demoted to the isolated and desolate Wanghai Town in eastern Zhejiang. Trapped between the mountains and the sea, she encounters Lu Shiyue, a young man who has guarded Haiyue Temple for generations and is bound by fate. During the lonely years, the two comforted each other and fell in love with each other, but they were severely torn apart by rumors in the town, harmed by gangsters, and family fate. When the Su family's injustice was vindicated and Su Mingzhan was able to return to the prosperous Chang'an, Lu Shiyue adhered to his ancestral precepts and stayed behind in the mountains and seas. For the next half of her life, she married and had children and lived a stable life, while he stayed alone in the temple and lived in the mountains and seas. The two cherished love and never saw each other for the rest of their lives. Their deep love was buried in the vast mountains and seas. Only a Shenyue knife and half a jade pendant were left, which retained the unconsummated love when they were young. After all, it was a life-long regret that was destined to be inevitable. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.