[Reborn for Revenge] [Power Plays] [A Cold-Faced Statesman’s Secret Devotion]
Reborn at fifteen, on the day of her coming-of-age ceremony, Song Qingyan splashes a cup of Yutangchun wine over the keepsake from her engagement to the hypocrite Ling Ye, publicly tearing apart seven years of false affection. The betrayal that once tore her heart to shreds is still vivid: her half-sister, Xie Yunshu, stole her place; her own child called another man father; and her husband, Ling Ye, crushed her last hope of survival with his own hands, laughing that she “deserved to rot.”
The powerful minister who climbs over the wall to bring her medicine: friend or foe?
With an iron fan, Marquis of Jing'an Gu Yuqing blocks Ling Ye's killing blow, then climbs over the wall to deliver a secret calming medicine. His words, “There is plenty of time,” conceal a deeper meaning. Only then does Song Qingyan realize that the cold glint of black jade she saw while dying in her previous life came from his ring! Behind her mother's murder and the Song family's ruin lies the shadow of a powerful courtier surnamed Gu. Wielding her mother's posthumous writings as a blade and selling off the family estate to fund her plans, she stakes everything to stir up a battle over salt permits and a scheme involving iron mines. Little does she know that she has already become the sharpest blade in Gu Yuqing's game.
He calls her “Madam” in public and uses the marquis's estate as a shield to protect her from a bone-corroding poison. She stands before the golden palace, weeping blood as she exposes the Empress Dowager's crimes: poisoning the late emperor and framing loyal officials. On the night she has her bones carved and her blood replaced, the black jade ring glows brightly, finally revealing the bond between their lives and deaths across two lifetimes. In her previous life, he crossed snowfields in search of her dying soul. In this life, he uses his own bloodline as the price to bring her back. As the wall between their two lifetimes crashes down, he picks up a new keepsake embroidered with twin jade magnolias and declares:
“The wall has fallen. This marquis won't rebuild it.”
“I'll guard the wall you want myself.”
