Spring Returns to Changmen

Chen Ajiao spent three years confined in Changmen Palace before a bolt of lightning struck her and sent her to the modern world.

When she opened her eyes, she had become a wealthy heiress: rich, beautiful, and able to get whatever she wanted.

Was it satisfying? Very.

Until the first day of high school, when she spotted a familiar face in her class:

Liu Che.

The former Emperor Wu of Han was now her uncle’s stepson, a poor student living under someone else’s roof. Wearing a faded old school uniform, he was surrounded by her clique of fair-weather friends, who were humiliating him.

He looked up at her.

For a moment, she thought she would see the emperor’s fury, resentment, and humiliation.

But he only looked at her, his eyes filled with a restraint suppressed for a thousand years, and a hint of something she couldn’t understand... the wild joy of finding again what he had lost.

Later, he cornered her in the library and said hoarsely, “Ajiao, that edict... It wasn’t what I wanted.”