Across ten lifetimes, he is a holy monk journeying west to fetch the scriptures, while she is a queen trapped in a lonely city.
On the tower of the Kingdom of Women, their eyes meet. The jade seal hidden in her sleeve burns hot, and ripples stir in his Buddha-heart. She cuts her wrist and offers her blood in sacrifice, begging him to stay just a little longer. His tears turn to pearls, but in the end he still sets out west. With the Buddhas’ curse hanging over them, she makes her own immolation the price and seals her memories in the flames: “Don’t wait for another life. I want you to suffer in this one.”
A thousand years later, in front of the Dunhuang murals, restorer Tang Qian is struck by an agonizing headache. The beauty mark beneath the queen’s eye in the painting matches that of archaeologist Lu Zhao. A broken jade token reveals fragments of the past. A demon seal lies hidden in the depths of an underground river, while a “Buddha-bone body” identical to his floats in a cloning lab.
As Xie Zhi closes in, driven by the obsession of a scorpion demon, and the Mirror of Reincarnation reveals the truth of Heaven’s tampering, he finally understands: every time she made him forget, it was a sacrifice she made with her own flesh and blood; every reunion was the beginning of a calamity.
This time, his Buddha bones burn and the Flower Goddess awakens. Can he grasp the hand holding the blade before he loses his memories?
