The First Year of the Chun Calendar

[Overpowered war-goddess fox princess x bright, loyal, lovesick heir who hides a dark side] Tianyu, the tenth daughter of Emperor Hongwu of the Jinchu dynasty, volunteered to join the army at fourteen, went to war at sixteen, and became a general at seventeen. The day the late emperor died and the new emperor took the throne was also the day she was given poisoned wine. She swallowed the cup, but it could not erase the hatred she had carried for years. As a child, she was neglected and bullied; her brother hanged himself, her mother was driven to her death, and her old enemy ordered her execution. Even her childhood sweetheart betrayed her. When the truth came to light, hatred surged through her as she died, unwilling to close her eyes. Why had she joined the army and become a general to change her miserable fate, only to spend her whole life still falling victim to destiny and the schemes of villains? Success and failure scattered like smoke, only to gather once more. Returning to begin again, she gets another life. She opens her eyes and realizes she has returned to the summer before it all began. In this life, she’ll kill anyone who stands in her way, be they gods or Buddhas, and defy fate! She thinks she has been given another life because of her overwhelming resentment. What she doesn’t know is that it was actually the man she had loved and hated who spent three days and three nights prostrating himself before Buddha, driven by a desperate, all-consuming obsession. “I know my heart is filled with countless distractions and my soul is wretched in a thousand ways. Even though I cannot escape this lingering sorrow and my feelings remain unsettled, even though we can never have everything we want, I beg the Bodhisattva for mercy and pray we may be together in our next life, all for her sake.”