When the Pear Blossoms Bloom, I’ll Return to You

She was the legitimate daughter of the Chancellor’s household. Her father was the sitting Chancellor, and her mother was the only daughter of a celebrated old general who had defended the nation. She should have lived a life of wealth and privilege, safe and smooth, but everything changed abruptly ten years ago.

First, her valiant maternal grandfather died suddenly in battle. Then her mother was assassinated, and she was forced to disappear for six years in the same attack.

Six years later, she returned to the household in grand fashion, bearing the title of the divine physician’s final disciple. Her only purpose was to uncover the mastermind behind the assassination and avenge her mother. But she never expected that a conspiracy might also lie behind her grandfather’s death in battle. The truth was like a web, with countless threads knotted together, each twist more bewildering than the last…

He was once the most favored eldest prince, and the one with the best chance of inheriting the throne. Skilled in both letters and arms, he followed the old general into battle at a young age, earning great honors and fame in a single campaign. His future seemed limitless.

But fate played a cruel joke on him. First, his mother consort died of illness. Then the old general he revered most died in battle saving him, leaving him permanently disabled and with no chance at the throne.

When he returned to Zhongdu, he was no longer the dashing young man in fine clothes. Beneath the disguise of an idle playboy lost in the arms of beautiful women, he was the most ferocious beast in the night, crawling forward and waiting for his chance, all so he could sink his teeth into the one who had set this tragedy in motion…

Their fates had been intertwined for ten years. When they first met, it was in the sorrow of the bitter winter. When they met again, the whole city was bright with the fragrance of pear blossoms. Feelings quietly took root amid repeated tests and battles fought side by side. In the end, who fulfilled whom, and who saved whom?