More than a hundred years ago, she ascended the throne as a woman. Later histories recorded that she died while leading a campaign. Looking back on her brief twenty years, her methods were ruthless: she killed her father and brothers, slaughtered her kin and entire cities, and earned mostly infamy. Even her posthumous title was an insult: Emperor Jiangli.
But why did the new emperor, after her death, have himself buried beside her empty tomb? And why was Gu Yue Zhiqiu, the mysterious leader of the Gu Yue clan, willing to spend a lifetime’s worth of cultivation to preserve a spark of her life? Was there more to the story?
After waking from a hundred years of sleep at the bottom of a lake, will she choose to live out the rest of her days in quiet seclusion, or follow the bloody path she once walked…
When chaos descends upon the world, where will she go…
Now she is an ordinary woman, while he is the heir of a prince of a different surname and the young master of the Island Beyond the World. Handsome, calculating, sinister, and ruthless, he will stop at nothing to get what he wants. At first, he sees her as nothing more than an insect, not worth a second glance or a place in his heart, someone he could discard or kill. But when these two clash, there is always someone stronger still. Will one of them die, or will they bury the hatchet…
Like him, she once wanted to cast off the title between them, but now she can no longer have it. The “her” of the past was timid, yet her eyes were full of love. This “her” now has a gaze even colder than his…
He said, “One day, across a hundred years of time, you will trace the Mengqing River upstream, and we will meet again. Will we continue where we left off, or finally settle the ties of our past lives?”
The story begins when she meets him. It is the greatest gift of her life. At the very end, she meets a “kind god” who promises to grant her three wishes. But she does not know that this “god,” later known as the God of Killing, will grant her many, many more wishes.
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