The White Moonlight Task Points to a Man

After dying of a terminal illness, writer Shen Mo is taken by the System into the world of a book, where he becomes the young emperor Pei Zhao’s beloved general, who died far too soon. The System promises that if he dies in battle according to the plot, he will receive a healthy body and live another life.

Shen Mo gladly accepts the mission and does everything he can to teach the bullied, frail prince strategy and martial arts. But as they spend their days together, his resolve gradually wavers. When he discovers that the System is speeding up the plot solely to maximize Pei Zhao’s suffering, he defiantly chooses to go against fate.

“If my death is destined to make him a tyrant, then I’ll give him a third ending by choosing to live for him.”

Amid the whirlpool of political power struggles, the frail prince grows into an iron-fisted emperor, while the transmigrator becomes a prisoner bound by a love-trial. When war breaks out again, Shen Mo must choose between his mission and his true feelings: should he follow the plot and die a glorious death, or defy heaven’s will and descend into the abyss with the tyrant?