Lotus Roots Grow Together, Like the Other Shore

The heroine, Yu Jianxi, is a makeup artist on a film crew. By chance, she transmigrates to the Southern Dynasty, where she meets Lin Bozhou, who grew up in a brothel. Using her superb makeup skills, she makes Lin Bozhou famous overnight in the Southern Dynasty, where men favor men. To find her way home, Yu Jianxi decides to stay at Chun Gui House for the time being and help Lin Bozhou investigate his origins. As their investigation deepens, they discover that Yuanyang, the madam of Chun Gui House, was a female official of the previous dynasty. She has secretly trained the twin sisters Zijin and Zining to enter the Southern Dynasty's imperial palace as dancers and gather military defense plans from within. Yu Jianxi and Lin Bozhou disguise themselves as musicians and infiltrate the palace. At a banquet for the ministers, Lin Bozhou draws the attention of the Southern Dynasty general Jiang Boyan by performing the score "Drumming." The piece was left behind by a court musician of the previous dynasty. Jiang Boyan's mother was a close friend and fellow student of that musician. After the previous dynasty fell, the musician went missing amid the chaos of war, and his mother also vanished without a trace. Hearing the score rekindles Jiang Boyan's hope, and he wants to find his mother through Lin Bozhou. He and Lin Bozhou...

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.