[Two Male Leads + A Seven-Thousand-Year Cycle of Reincarnation + Obsessive, Controlling Pursuer x Sincere, Rebellious Pursued + A Bond Across Time and Space Through Ten Lifetimes]
A box of cold jade, peerless frost and snow. Every seven hundred years, a new life begins. What I see through your eyes then is my own soul. Adrift for a thousand years, crossing frost and snow, I seek the true self lost within the cycle of reincarnation. A bond spanning time slowly unfolds amid the bitter cold.
The snow on the execution platform of the Northern Frontier has lain for seven thousand years.
Xiao Lin has lived for seven thousand years and pursued him through ten lifetimes. He has been an elder who holds the power of life and death, a ruthless warlord ruling his own territory, an ascetic captain roaming the depths of space, and a shadowy figure wielding immense power. In every life, he hunts one person: the youth with a brand on his shoulder blade and a heart full of sincerity. "Run to the ends of the earth, and I'll still drag you back," he says. His fingertips conceal a surging possessiveness, yet he has never once said, "I'm afraid you'll be gone."
Ye Zhao has rebelled in ten lifetimes and run for seven thousand years. He has been an orphan of the execution platform, a Miao healer, a hostage in a turbulent age, and a rebel who refuses to bow even in dire straits. In every life, he struggles to break free of fate. Manipulated into poisoning someone, betrayed in public, pushed off a cliff: even so, at the brink of death, he always runs into that cold, unyielding figure. "You and I were never on the same path," he says. His stubborn expression hides a heart still burning with passion, yet whenever he turns away, he cannot help looking back at the gaze that has pursued him for seven thousand years.
Through seven thousand years and ten lifetimes, they are each other's obsession and salvation, and the souls that resonate across the ages.
The author's pace in the first few chapters is relatively slow, but it will become richer in the later chapters, and there are many twists and turns. Especially when approaching chapter 20, the richness of the story gradually increases. The previous narration is relatively slow, maybe to lay down some foreshadowing.