Three Bows to the Cloud Pattern

Zhang Yingnuo, the Chancellor's daughter, and Li Chenyan, her childhood friend and bodyguard, grew up together. But just as love began to blossom between them, fate tore them apart. In their first life, she leapt from her chambers to die for him. In their second, he searched the mass graves until he found her cold embroidered handkerchief. In their third, she was reborn with her memories, while he had forgotten their past, and the two met once more.

When the newly crowned top scholar Li Chenyan picks up the cloud-patterned handkerchief of Zhang Yingnuo, the wealthy merchant's legitimate daughter; when the blood and tears of a commoner embroiderer seep into a jade pendant belonging to a young master from the Ministry of Revenue; when the white jade hairpin of the Chancellor's daughter breaks beside the plum tree in her boudoir... The souls of old lovers engraved upon the Three Lives Stone finally knock on the door of fate's cycle where their cloud patterns intertwine.