Mysterious Lotus Casebook: Dreaming Away

The Four Seasons Sect rose to fame throughout the martial world, and its young master was full of youthful ambition. But he was drawn into a deadly game, and the love he gave was misplaced.

Who could forget the red silks and sword dance of years ago, swaying beneath the moon as crowds filled the streets? Those days are gone. After the battle at sea, all the world mourned.

He hid away from the world and buried his name. Ten years later, he had learned to let go of love and hate. He never found a kindred spirit, but he met an old friend again, and that was enough. The East Sea rendezvous still awaited him, but he could no longer go. The man was gone, the sword broken. Who could understand the sorrow of Lotus’s life and death, and who could know what Li Xiangyi was truly like?

Years later, at a fishing village, he heard of a man who was blind in both eyes, had a useless right arm, and was confused and seemingly mad. He went looking and found him in a lonely alley. All he could say was, “Li Xiangyi, as long as you’re alive, that’s enough. As long as you’re alive, that’s enough. If you go through life this foolishly, without worrying about anything else, that’s enough…”

The Longest Promise × Mysterious Lotus Casebook

Volume One: She Was Born a Goddess; This Was Her Duty (BE)

Synopsis: Li Lianhua and his two companions return to the past, twenty years earlier, to protect Li Xiangyi, save a young Di Feisheng, and become Fang Duobing’s guiding light. They want to change how the story begins, but never expected someone to have already done it for them.

She was mortal, yet bore the duties of a goddess.

The laws of the world are countless, but none can overcome what the heart willingly chooses. The dream will not end, and the story cannot be told. This karma begins again. The shackles cannot be severed, and the heart cannot accept life and death. When the bell rings, let no thought or longing stir. A boat drifts far across the sea of suffering, yet remains imprisoned by its own hand. Heaven and earth have no order; the night-blooming flower appears for but an instant. In the great dream, there will be a time of return. It was all a false alarm, just another fleeting life…

She said to him, “Li Lianhua, Qiao Wanmian and Wen Xiao are both me, just as Li Lianhua and Li Xiangyi are both you.”

Volume Two: You Save the World; I Save You (HE)

When they meet again, he tells A Mian, “I would never mistake you. I would never mistake my own wife.”

She says, “Even if I had no divine powers, I could still wield these twin blades! I could still save these people!”