One misguided choice, and they are parted by life and death; one contract, and they meet again across the divide.
That year, when the apricot blossoms had all fallen, she became a sacrifice in a conspiracy within a grand mansion. Qin Qihao, the husband she fell in love with at first sight, schemed with his favored concubine, Bai Wanru, to curry favor with the powerful. He personally fed his wife, Su Shuyao, a bowl of “Hundred-Day Wither” poison. Once a gentle young doctor, he fell into depravity, consumed by power and greed. He let her suffer on her sickbed until she died with hatred in her heart.
That year, the road to the afterlife was cold, and he pledged his life as payment. When Jiang Xingzhou heard the tragic news, he rushed back from a thousand miles away, only to find his old friend’s coffin and her soul already scattered. To give her a chance at life, he defied the wandering Daoist’s warning that her soul would be scattered and that defying fate would bring Heaven’s punishment. Without hesitation, he signed the “Return to Life Contract.” Three years of his lifespan and half a lifetime of good health were the price he paid to the underworld.
She returns from the afterlife by borrowing another body, reborn as the lavishly pampered Princess Zhaoyang. Her past life fades away, blurred by an unfamiliar body and a haze of memories. On a bustling street in the capital, he and she brush past each other, strangers now…
