I arrived when spring had yet to come, and left when it filled the garden.
Even after drinking more than a dozen bowls of Meng Po’s Soup before the Bridge of Helplessness, Lu Yan remained consumed by resentment and regret, unable to let go of his past. He nearly tore the underworld apart. In the end, to get this great menace out of there, the underworld judge went to great lengths to fool the King of Hell and send him back to life in his original world.
After his rebirth, Lu Sikong remained ill at home, but was secretly intent on seizing power. In his previous life, he had diligently supported the emperor and managed state affairs, only to be accused of treason and executed after becoming too powerful. His corpse was left in the wilderness, no one in the Lu household survived, and he died with a ruined reputation.
At the New Year’s palace banquet, the Sikong, given another life, took the Fourth Prince Pei Zheng from the cold palace, where the emperor had abandoned him, and taught him literature, martial arts, and the art of ruling.
He indulged Pei Zheng at every turn, raising him into an excellent candidate for crown prince. Then he openly seized power and kicked the emperor off his throne.
In the end, Lu Sikong avenged himself, only to become hopelessly entangled with the kitten he had raised himself.
[Two male leads, political scheming, alternate world, ensemble cast, powerful leads, younger love interest, bottom, thirteen-year age gap between top and bottom, both reborn.
A cold-hearted, sickly beauty bottom (Lu Yan) vs. a scheming, possessive, loyal-dog top (Pei Zheng)
Plot comes first, romance second.
“Sir, live on for me. I’m willing to pay for it with my life.”
P.S. Pei Zheng is reborn as well. You can think of him as the Pei Zheng from a parallel world, where he eventually became emperor, but Lu Yan had already been dead for many years. Pei Zheng’s obsession is with that bone-chilling winter night when Lu Yan gave him warmth in the snow.
It was the only glimmer of light he could glimpse while drowning in the abyss for years, and the salvation that sustained him as he rose to power.]
