Garden

Synopsis + [historical romance + transmigration + heroine's growth + fictional setting]

This is a fictional history, and everything is made up.

All she wants is wealth and status, not a shred of true affection.

The heroine grows over time and isn't ruled by romance. (The same goes for some of the supporting characters: they can only grow through loss and hardship.)

Li Yuan, a recent college graduate, accidentally transmigrates to an unfamiliar dynasty. Trapped by the strictures of feudal society, she suffers repeated losses, oppression, and frame-ups, and nearly loses her life several times.

By imperial decree, she marries the young general Qi Fengze, and they begin a life of marriage before love...

Once innocent and kind, with a good head on her shoulders, she believes that after losing friends, witnessing death, and facing the darkness of feudal society, she has finally grown into someone strong enough not to be controlled by the times...

But after enduring it all, Li Yuan is finally assimilated by the era...

At last, one day, after losing everything, she gets what she wished for...

P.S. A few lines from the story:

Li Yuan: Prejudice between people is like a great mountain...

Qi Fengze: I, Qi, have long admired Second Miss Li. I hope...

Yue Wanqing: The things one wishes for are never easy to attain. I only wish to live this life in freedom...

Mu Qingping: If we travel a thousand miles from here and can never meet again in this life, I’ll keep this mask as a memento...

Zhou Lingyi: Whether to despair is a personal choice, but dragging others down to hell with you is unforgivable! I, Zhou, would never do such a thing...

Si Yu: Miss Yue, is there someone you love?

Gao Lang: I only know that what matters is what we make happen. No one is born destined to do anything...