On the ninth day of the sixth month in the forty-sixth year of Chengming, all was auspicious.
The Prince of Nanyang’s household held a lavish wedding for the legitimate daughter of the Chancellor’s family, while gongs and drums filled the streets of Changjing.
Prince Su returned victorious and entered the palace to receive his reward. Inside the imperial city, cups clinked and dancers performed in a scene of revelry.
Yet no one knew that Lu Yan, the Chancellor’s well-behaved legitimate daughter, who should have been dressed in red and married off, had already died with grievances in her heart before dawn.
On the ninth day of the sixth month in the thirty-sixth year of Chengming, nothing was auspicious.
During a perilous assassination attempt at Emerald Lake, young Lu Yan fell into the water and nearly drowned. Fortunately, the young Prince Su rescued her.
Reborn, Lu Yan woke to see the family members she had long lost standing alive before her. Tears filled her eyes, and she quietly made up her mind:
In this life,
To protect my uncle and everyone in the Dongyang Shen family,
I absolutely, absolutely must
cling tightly to my adoptive father Xiao Yunchi’s leg!!!
The setting of rebirth and saving people is so exciting! The protagonist's struggle to save people and rely on the powerful is directly touching the heart. He has both a cherishment of life and a helplessness towards reality. This sense of contradiction makes the story full of charm and is worth savoring~