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**Core theme:** Obsession and fulfillment across life and death, the true meaning and choice of love in the cycle of fate.
**Character:**
* **Lu Yunshen:** A young businessman with a cold appearance (actually the reincarnation of a famous general from the previous dynasty), is responsible for the rise and fall of his family. His temperament is forbearing and restrained, and deep in his heart there is unspeakable passion and obsession for a certain vague figure.
* **Su Wanqing:** A talented girl from a lonely scholarly family, elegant and tough, and good at painting. He is often troubled by a recurring dream (blood and fire, armor, tearing apart), and has an inexplicable closeness and heartache to Yun Shen.
* **Song Zhiyan:** Yun Shen's close friend and right-hand assistant, with a gentle and open-minded temperament, is an important witness and promoter of their relationship. There is an implicit appreciation for Wanqing.
* **Mrs. Lu:** Grandmother Yun Shen, the actual helmsman of the family, is strong and shrewd, and regards interests above all else. She is the main resistance to marriage in this life.
* **Lin Yueyao:** The daughter of a high-ranking official, Mrs. Lu's preferred marriage partner, she is proud but not a villain, she is interested in Yun Shen, and she is also a player in the chess game.
**Story background:** In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the prosperous commercial ports in the south of the Yangtze River were intertwined with the power field in the capital. The maritime ban policy was loosened, and the status of merchants subtly increased.
**Story synopsis:**
**1. Wedge: Frightening Dream·First Encounter (Origin of this Life)**
