[A two-faced crown prince × a thousand-year-old saintess, joining forces to solve a mystery in a suspenseful imperial court]
Pei Xuan, a modern elite diplomat, wakes up to find himself the most famous “mama’s boy” crown prince in the history of the Li Ming Kingdom.
He appears sickly and dissolute, but is actually sharp and calculating. Forced to take on a bizarre unsolved case, he must investigate the strange red threads that appear on newlyweds’ wrists on their wedding night, and the mystery of their sudden deaths, which has cast a shadow over the entire court.
Qi Ming, the least favored “saintess” in the Chancellor’s household, is forced to marry him.
She doesn’t vie for affection or scheme in the harem. She only likes to roam the rooftops beneath the moon, occasionally claiming she’s lived for a thousand years. She’s an “oddity” the entire palace steers clear of.
At first, he approaches her only to investigate the case. Watching him, she just thinks the crown prince must find his act exhausting.
Until, beneath the palace walls, he catches a glimpse of the blood-red thread coiled around her fingertip. And in a secret chamber on a rainy night, she tosses him an old, hidden map of the storerooms.
“Shall we work together?” he asks, raising an eyebrow.
“Let’s see how you do,” she replies, turning and vanishing into the night.
When a cold transmigrator meets someone who has roamed freely for a thousand years, a dangerous game of conspiracy, immortality, and true feelings begins.
The red thread is no bond of fate, but a curse that takes lives. Immortality is no blessing, but a prison for the heart.
Tags: Transmigration | Alternate History | Powerful Leads Working Together | Mystery and Investigation | Past Lives and Present
