[Love Across Two Lifetimes: A Story of Devotion]
On a rainy night, delivery driver Lin Yu falls into a well and transmigrates to ancient times, where he becomes an imperial guard. The moment he opens his eyes, he sees the empress torturing Consort Shen Qinghuan to death on charges of adultery. Her resentful gaze overlaps with the face of his younger sister in his memories. Despite the vast difference in their status, he draws his sword and saves her. Using his modern way of thinking, he navigates the palace's power struggles and rises from a lowly guard to become the emperor's trusted aide. During the years he secretly falls in love with Shen Qinghuan, he uses his business acumen to reform the salt and iron industries and his knowledge of infrastructure to tackle floods. But he cannot escape the emperor's suspicion. When the emperor grants him a cup of poisoned wine, Shen Qinghuan, dressed in red, drinks it for him. The cinnabar mole behind her ear blooms in a pool of blood like the last red plum blossom.
After his soul returns to the modern world, Lin Yu can never forget her. Then, on a delivery run, he encounters Su Yao, a wealthy heiress fleeing her arranged marriage who looks identical to Shen Qinghuan. The ancestral jade pendant swinging at her neck is the very one Shen Qinghuan gave him before she died in his previous life. When a bridal sedan for a wealthy family's marriage alliance overlaps with the white silk of an execution ground in ancient times, he becomes her protector once more, defeating the powerful in business battles and exposing the dark secrets of capital in the court of public opinion. Bound together across two lifetimes, he was the imperial guard who protected her in ancient times and is now the knight who stands against the world for her.
From willow trees along palace walls to the neon lights of the city, an obsession spanning a thousand years weaves itself into a cocoon beneath rainstorms and moonlight. When Su Yao puts on her wedding dress and wears the chi dragon jade pendant, the cinnabar moles behind their ears answer each other. Fate had tied their red thread through a rift in time all along. Whether he is an imperial guard or a delivery knight, his mission has always been to cross the sea of humanity and catch the falling starlight.