Jing Xi, a young woman of the Nine-Tailed Fox Clan, grew up with her adoptive father in a remote place far from human settlements. After losing her beloved family, she followed her friend Lian Cheng's encouragement and went to the Heaven Gathering Pavilion on Lingyun Peak to study under a master. There she met her teacher, Shui Qingyao. Her love blossomed across three lifetimes, though she had no idea she was merely repeating the same tragedy... One day, her grand dream shattered and she awoke to discover that it had all been part of a vast conspiracy. Her own family and the person she loved most were, in truth, the very ones who had plunged her into utter ruin. Yet by the banks of the River of Forgetfulness, beside the Three Lives Stone, everything had long since been fated. She was destined to face the romantic calamity planted at the dawn of chaos; what she could never repay was the debt of love tangled across three lifetimes... When the flowers bloom and fall, can those who have left ever return?