Gathered in My Arms

Clear-headed beauty VS cunning general VS scheming court official

A nontraditional past and present life story (the author reserves the right to explain)

Though she is the eldest daughter of the Gu family, Gu Yunhuai knows that her father only dotes on her a little, her grandmother doesn't love her, and her stepmother resents her. She doesn't care. All she wants is to live her own life, follow her own path, and protect the business her mother left behind. But two “obstacles” appear along the way. One is a mighty and imposing general, a celebrated god of war who carries a portrait of her, complete with a poem she supposedly wrote, though she has no recollection of it. The other is a rising court official, whose gentle, jade-like face always masks a distant manner. After meeting Gu Yunhuai, however, his eyes hold an emotion she can't read or explain. He watches her. But why? She doesn't understand, and neither does he.

As the Great Qi Empire's god of war, Ling Wang had earned glorious military honors at a young age. He had been trained on the border since he could remember. One day, he happened to save an old monk, who gave him a painting in gratitude. Mysteries surrounded it from then on, until he actually encountered the woman depicted in the painting in real life...

Lu Cang had an unhappy childhood. His parents died in an accident, and in his search for the truth, he made his way into the imperial court, eventually becoming one of its three highest-ranking ministers. No one mattered to him, and he regarded everyone with the same calm indifference. That is, until an unfamiliar woman entered his life. Everything she did somehow caught his attention...

Old monk: “Everything in this life is the consequence of causes planted in a past life. All conditioned things arise from the convergence of causes and conditions.”