If you could start over as someone else in another world, would you choose to live her life?
Mu Qingyun, trained to be a flawless weapon, turns and walks away. Whoever that life belonged to, it belongs to her now.
Then someone appears, her beloved, and makes her put away her thorns and pretend to be an ordinary person.
Perhaps fate is simply something no one can explain. The person she avoided for ten years still has to be seen, and the life she shunned for ten years still has to be lived.
But the tangled web of cause and effect will eventually become clear. Is this supposed perfect match the result of scheming, or the will of heaven?
Li Xuansheng, a prince of the Xuan Dynasty, has never been master of his own life. Scheming and manipulation are shackles he can never escape: his elder brother’s exploitation, the court’s suspicion, and his birth father’s machinations. He can laugh them all off, but there is one person who is the sole exception, impossible to abandon and impossible to protect.
After yet another bloody battle with the enemy, Li Xuansheng’s mask is caked in thick blood, and his gaze has begun to blur.
The sound of hooves breaks the silence. A woman in dark blue riding clothes gallops toward him, leaps from her horse, and runs up to him.
“This time, you have to come with me.”
Li Xuansheng gazes deeply at her. Though he longs to pull her into his arms, he doesn’t dare move. He puts on his usual gentle smile.
“You know that’s impossible.”
He is a prince of the Xuan Kingdom. He will never allow enemy cavalry to set foot on even an inch of its borders, nor will he let ordinary people suffer for no reason.
The woman, angry, says nothing. She turns sharply, mounts her horse, and rides away without a backward glance.
As he falls, he watches the figure of horse and rider recede into the distance. His heart aches, but he cannot shed a single tear.
