A Heart and Love So Hard to Sever, Like Flowers in a Mirror and the Moon in Water, All for Nothing

(First, a note: If you can’t get into it or think it’s awful, don’t force yourself to read. This is an alternate take on the original. If that bothers you, please don’t read or leave nasty comments.)

Three hundred years after Chenxiang rescued his mother, Heaven abolished the old law forbidding romance between immortals and mortals. Heavenly rule seemed to flourish, yet a crisis was quietly brewing beneath the surface. At the same time, Heaven secretly erected barriers across the seas to restrict the Dragon Clan’s freedom, bringing to light long-buried matters such as the “extermination of the dragon bloodline” and the “great calamity of dragons and phoenixes”...

By the Jade Emperor’s secret order, Yang Jian set out to investigate the whereabouts of the ancient artifact Dinghai Pearl. The Dragon King of the West Sea hinted that the clue lay with Ao Cunxin, but no one had seen the Third Princess’s true face in three hundred years.

Yang Jian and Ao Cunxin meet again in the West Sea. What fate awaits them now...