"Under the Red Wall, Strangers Walking Together"
Su Qing, a modern social animal, dies suddenly and wakes up to find that she is Su Qingyan, the legitimate daughter of the Minister of Household Affairs of the Great Zhou Dynasty - she is actually a transvaginator, with twenty-one years of modern memory, hiding in the courtyard of a deep house for sixteen years.
She thought she was the only "other" until at the Queen Mother's birthday party, the hosta left by her mother became a token of love given by the third prince Zhao Heng to the prime minister's daughter. A sudden frame-up dragged her into the palace whirlpool. At a critical moment, Xie Jingxing, the rebellious Prince of Zhenbei, actually used a piece of lavender and a paper clip to convey a code across time and space to her.
"Are you also from the 21st century?"
The countdown that suddenly appeared on the wrist, the simplified Chinese signature in the imperial study room, the ruthless elimination of "others" by the clockkeepers, the extraterrestrial meteorite hiding the rift in time and space in the Qintian Prison... Two souls from modern times were forced to go together in the power game of the red-walled palace.
He said he would take her to find a way back, but when she trusted him, the countdown revealed that "he was lying"; she thought she could cut off the entanglement with ancient times, but found that the modern world had long been shrouded in the shadow of the rift in time and space. When the pursuit of the clock watcher spans two time and space, and when Zhao Heng's gentle mask hides a deeper secret, should the pair of "strangers" work together to break the laws of time and space, or should they choose their own fate between love, hate and return?
Under the red wall, every step is startling. They are each other's salvation, but also each other's doom - this transmigration puzzle that spans sixteen years will ultimately involve the fate of the two worlds as a bet on life and death.
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It's very interesting and the ideas are very clear. It's a subject I've never seen before. The author's writing is very interesting and very good.
It's very interesting and the ideas are very clear. It's a subject I've never seen before. The author's writing is very interesting and very good.