You Summon the Nine Provinces

Beneath the vast ninefold heavens, across the snow-covered lands…

She was a lotus lamp before the Buddha; he was a pear blossom branch beyond the palace gates.

She once kept him company for ten thousand years, year after year waiting in vain on the branch. He was destined to be the tribulation of her life. One wrong step, and every step after was wrong…

In her first life, he was a young nobleman of the Jin dynasty, and she was the reigning princess.

She thought they were made for each other. But Heaven did not grant her wish. A single glass lamp shattered, and every shard was soaked in the blood of longing.

In her second life, he was a god of the ninefold heavens, and she was a Buddhist emissary of the Lotus Realm.

He forgot everything from his past and no longer remembered his promise to bring peace to the lands for her sake.

And in his eyes, she became his enemy.

He wanted revenge for the woman he loved, willing even to tear out her heart and offer it in sacrifice to her.

Trembling, she cut out her heart and gave it to him, her eyes full of devastation. “I’m giving you my heart. From now on, we owe each other nothing…”