The Mirror Locks Away Eternity: The General's Wife Has Cheat Skills

The instant a Northern Song bronze mirror glowed faintly on the artifact restoration table, a burning pain shot through Shen Qinghuan’s fingertips. On the snowy plain inside the mirror, the bloodied general Gu Huaizhi turned around. The crescent-shaped birthmark on his neck matched perfectly with the Song-dynasty military officer’s remains she had just pieced together. She thought it was a restorer’s hallucination, but when she touched the mirror, she was swept into a blood-soaked battlefield during the Qingli era. To protect the general’s remaining troops, she took the place of the fallen “Shen” and played along with him. As he handed her the bloodstained tiger tally, he promised softly, “Once I break through the enemy lines, I’ll welcome you with a bridal procession stretching ten miles.” But when she arrived in Bianjing carrying half the bronze mirror, she saw the Yunhui General marrying Princess Fukang. Stranger still, beneath the princess’s raised sleeve was a pattern of crystallized marks that matched the cracks in the mirror. She said with a smile, “This mirror devours people. You and I are both sacrifices it chose.” On the night she miscarried, the bronze mirror shattered. A critical notice about her mother’s condition in the modern world appeared at the same time as blood-written words at an ancient execution ground. Only when Gu Huaizhi was led to the chopping block on charges of treason did Shen Qinghuan understand the mirror’s secret. The tribulation of love spanning a thousand years had never been a coincidence. What she had restored was not an artifact, but a contract of life and death that crossed through time. As the executioner’s blade fell, she clutched the two halves of the bronze mirror and leapt into the rift in time. At the moment Bianjing crumbled in a wash of blue light, the security cameras in a modern museum clearly captured a line of writing slowly appearing on a piece of gold foil in the display case: “Qinghuan, if there is another life, let me be the one to find you.”