She has all the time in the world, yet she cannot keep the one person she wants to stay.
Qin Guan is the last immortal in the world, carrying the blood feud of her clan, slaughtered by an emperor. Disguised as a wandering girl, all she wants is to hide her eternal curse amid the chaos of war.
Until she meets:
· Li Yuan, the younger brother who lets her know the warmth of family, yet dreams of becoming a general and resolutely marches off to a battlefield that devours lives.
· Yu Zhengqing, a gentle officer who cares for the people and promises her a lifetime of peace, but succumbs to the lure of power and casts her into the abyss with a betrayal that shakes the heavens.
· Xiao Yao, the younger sister she rescues from the mire, who sees her as her only light and ultimately dies protecting her, blood spilling across the scene.
As one after another of the people she loves dies before her eyes, immortality becomes the cruelest curse of all.
So she gives everything she has to establish the Red House, sheltering unfortunate women from across the land and protecting the people from the shadows. She believes this will be her eternal home.
Until one day, the man who has long since ascended the throne finds her, his eyes filled with an obsession that could destroy the world:
“Would you turn back and look at me just once, if I sacrificed my empire, stretching for thousands of miles, for you?”
She only smiles faintly and turns to walk into the lights of countless homes:
“My empire is here.”
[An epic tale of loss, protection, and defying fate. See how an immortal, in an age when everyone seeks eternal life, spends eternity to trade for a taste of ordinary human warmth.]
