This is a heartbreaking epic of profound love, spanning a thousand cycles of reincarnation. Built upon the unyielding longing of spirits and threaded with a love that defies life and death, it lays bare the world's most piercing love and regrets.
An ancient flower spirit, consumed by longing, takes human form and falls in love with the Immortal Lord Who Has Cast Aside Emotion. For defying the laws of heaven, they are both cast into the mortal world to suffer countless lifetimes apart. In each life, they meet amid a sea of people and fall deeply in love: from their breathtaking first encounter in the capital to the tenderness they share in Jiangnan, from the warmth of standing together in the martial world to the steadfast devotion they find on the frontier. Their love never changes, yet imperial schemes, the greater good of nation and family, the divide between immortals and mortals, and fate itself tear them apart time and again.
She gives him all her heart, only to be pushed away by fate every time. Her joy turns to utter despair, yet in every life she holds her head high, like a woman dressed in her finest robes, and walks away with dazzling resolve, concealing her love and dignity in her retreating silhouette and leaving behind nothing but wounds.
Across a thousand years of reincarnation, she drinks countless bowls of Meng Po's soup, forgetting the names, pasts, and loves and hatreds of each life until all that came before is wiped clean. Yet deep within her spirit, the figure walking away remains etched into her bones. Neither the waters of the Yellow Springs nor the currents of the River of Forgetfulness can erase it. Whenever she thinks of it, agony grips her heart and her tears will not stop. In every life, he is powerless against fate, hiding his deep love and guilt as he watches her leave. After death, he waits by the River of Forgetfulness for ten thousand years, hoping only to give her one peaceful lifetime.
Spanning the Three Realms, this story explores longing and redemption to the very end, proving that memories may fade, but love etched into the soul can never be forgotten, not even after drinking every last bowl of Meng Po's soup or enduring a thousand lifetimes of tribulation.
Good book,. A tear-jerking book!