Cinnabar Tears: Repaying a Debt of Gratitude Across Two Lifetimes, Defying Fate

I entered the palace in the name of the “Goddess,” clearing every obstacle from his path and protecting him as he grew from a pure-hearted boy into a spirited crown prince.

At the lantern festival, he won every lantern for me, then asked with heartfelt sincerity, “Yingyue, do you have even the slightest affection for me?”

My heart twisted with pain, but I could only reject him cruelly.

Because I knew that my very existence was his greatest calamity.

I thought I had successfully changed fate, but on the day of the polo match, the cinnabar mark burned fiercely. As the world spun around me, I returned once more to the snowy night when he took his own life!

The new emperor told me of the late Emperor Liyuan’s final decree: “May body and soul be utterly destroyed, never to be human again in any lifetime.”

So all my efforts across two lifetimes to defy fate had been nothing but one enormous joke played by destiny.

In the end, my protection was merely a glimmer of light in his tragedy...

No. If fate must repeat itself, then I will return again and again. Even if I burn away my soul, I will kindle an everlasting lamp in his cold life!