When Lin Wei wakes to the morning light in the library, she finds herself amid the desert sands and ruined temples outside Chang'an in 194 AD. Surrounded by rebel soldiers, she is pulled back from the brink by Guo Jia, a scholar in blue robes, beginning her turbulent entanglement with the brilliant strategist known as the “Ghost Prodigy.”
She keeps her secret of having transmigrated hidden, uses data analysis to predict Yuan Shao's supply movements, and saves wounded soldiers with basic medical skills. She repeatedly comes up with ingenious plans in the Battle of Guandu and the fierce fighting at Red Cliffs, yet the fate of “Guo Jia's early death” looms over her like a thorn. From sharing wine beneath a peach tree in Xuchang, to saving each other's lives when attacked in Jiangdong, to his farewell words at his sickbed, “Live well,” she holds the jade pendant he left behind and promotes land reclamation while protecting people's livelihoods amid political strife. Yet after Cao Pi usurps the Han, she ultimately chooses to stay by his grave and watch the peach blossoms bloom and fall year after year.
Until, in a modern-day library, someone with a familiar hand picks up a copy of The Life of Guo Jia with an ancient jade pendant tucked inside. Across a thousand years, some meetings and acts of devotion were never a coincidence.
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