A Heart That Speaks for Itself

Synopsis of A Heart to Bear Witness

In their previous life, he wronged her for a thousand years.

Erlang Zhenjun Yang Jian did not see what he had lost until the moment his soul scattered. He had treated the sincere love of Ao Cunxin, the Third Princess of the West Sea, as a shackle, driving her to despair with his coldness and indifference. Their marriage ended in divorce, and he shut himself away in the West Sea. But after guarding the dragon scales she had shed alone at Guanjiangkou for a thousand years, he finally understood: she had never been the one to imprison him. He had pushed away with his own hands the only person willing to defy the laws of Heaven for him, someone who had no home to return to.

Reborn into a new life, he returns to the morning when the misunderstanding first began.

This time, Yang Jian returns with a thousand years of regret and memories. He sheds the True Lord’s cold demeanor and kneels before Cunxin to apologize. He distances himself from the Moon Palace and cuts off every ambiguous entanglement. He protects Fox Sister, prevents Yang Chan from marrying the wrong man, and makes amends for every regret from his previous life.

But in this life, Cunxin has become clear-eyed and independent after a thousand years of heartbreak. She no longer throws herself into danger for a few tender words from him, nor lets Chang’e’s presence make her anxious and insecure. When he tries to win her over, she even asks calmly, “Yang Jian, do you know that gratitude is not what I want from you?”

And so the Three Realms bear witness to the longest “hellish quest to win back a wife.”

The cold-faced God of War becomes a lovesick man, searching the Four Seas for the lotus seeds she likes, kneeling across the West Sea just to beg her to turn back, and even using his divine soul as a sacrifice to shield her from Heaven’s punishment. The walls around Cunxin’s heart, too, begin to crack, bit by bit, as he risks his life to protect her again and again.

As the truth from a thousand years ago is revealed piece by piece, the reasons he could never forget Chang’e, the weight of the family feud he bore, and what he hid beneath the words “I have no way to repay you”