In her previous life, Xiao Yihua’s mother was the legitimate daughter of the prestigious Shen Duke’s household in the capital, a personal disciple of the divine physician Yun Wu, and the only foreign-born princess in the history of the Great Jin, honored for treating plagues across the nations with her medical skill.
Such an extraordinary woman was tricked into marrying the young master of the Changping Earl’s household, a cousin with a scheming heart and a thirst for revenge. After the wedding, he imprisoned and disfigured her. He exploited the Shen family’s century-old reputation to line his own pockets and collude with foreign powers in an attempt to rebel.
To spare the people the suffering of war and atone for her own mistakes, her mother turned the tables, using herself as bait to break the trap. She was burned alive in a great fire as a sacrifice to raise the battle standard.
Reborn, Xiao Yihua found herself back before her mother’s marriage, able to witness with her own eyes the peerless beauty her mother had been as a young woman, gentle yet steadfast.
She cut off her mother’s ill-fated romance with her own hands, even if it meant she would disappear.
A god protects the one he cherishes, becoming a mother to watch over them. In this life, please let your daughter be your guardian deity.
Just when she thought she could disappear without a care, she saw the young marquis, once as distant as a flower atop a high peak, easily crush the wine cup in his hand. Blood mixed with liquor and dripped to the ground.
He pinned her beneath him, his eyes bloodshot and veins bulging. His voice was restrained and controlled, yet filled with anger. “You lied to me! Didn’t you?”
He went mad, summoning Daoist priests from across the land to change her fate.
He said, “Heaven decrees that you cannot live, so I will trade my life for my wife’s.”
