He relentlessly pursues the unsolved jade pendant case, while she frantically amasses wealth to secure three years of living expenses.
Neither knows that he was the Western Empress she protected with her life in a past life, or that she is the Yonglong Emperor who reincarnated for his sake.
A pact to “be buried together and continue their bond” turns out to be a thousand-year-old deception in which they took turns sacrificing their lives for each other.
In this life, the broken jade changes their fate.
He is willing to abandon his future to give her a long life. She is willing to give up her memories to share an ordinary life with him.
Later, every regular at the Apricot Blossom Dock teahouse knows that the proprietress can never remember the past, while the owner's account book always records only the future.
