In a former life, the Heavenly Emperor Cang Yuan fell in love with the Flower Goddess Chang Heng and defied the laws of heaven, throwing the Three Realms into turmoil.
The Flower Goddess became pregnant with a daughter named Qing Chen, who inherited the soul of the plum blossom. To protect her, the goddess sealed away her divine powers, abandoned her in the mortal world, and entrusted a human couple to raise her for eighteen years.
Jun Lingyuan, guardian of the Flower Goddess, obeyed the Emperor’s command to protect her last descendant. He sacrificed his divine soul to lock away her tribulations. Before his soul scattered, he left behind a fragment of his consciousness, descended into the mortal world, and was reborn as Xiao Jingyuan, emperor of the Dayao Empire.
The plum blossom falls through three lifetimes. One tribulation of love: both fate and calamity.