Rotten Grass Turns to Fireflies

In her first life, Wei Ying grew up without parents, raised single-handedly by her grandfather, Duke Wei. She thought her life would be peaceful after exchanging betrothal letters with the hated, old-fashioned legitimate grandson of Lord Fu. But the moment the Second Prince appeared, schemes, traps, and slaughter followed... In the end, she was nothing more than a pawn in the royal family's struggle for power. Even at the moment of despair, the man she loved never came. To save her uncle and the emperor, she leapt from the palace walls.

"The Wei family has never feared death. I am loyal only to the emperor, to the Southern Dynasty, and to the people!"

"Brother Junting, if I die, bury my heart beneath the Three Lives Stone on Qingcheng Mountain. My obsession runs so deep, I fear I've gone mad... If there is a next life, I still want to be with Fu Chao. I want to ask him when he'll take me home as his bride."

In her second life, after she died, she peered into the Mirror of Past Lives and could only be reborn as a blade of grass. She had no memories of her previous life and spent only six months accompanying Fu Chao, who had become an old monk. She died in the third month of summer...

In her third life, she became a tiny firefly in an ancient temple at Qingcheng Monastery, desperately searching for someone. She couldn't remember who she was looking for; she just kept crying as she searched, until the old monk Fu Chao's body was engulfed in roaring flames. There, in the firelight, she saw him. She searched a thousand times among the crowd, and there he was, in the dimming lights. Like a moth to a flame, she plunged into the fire and burned to ash...