The Lamenting Geese: Heaven Blesses Pianpian

A story about “making up for regrets”

He lived again for one reason: to redeem the person whose whole life he had ruined.

In his previous life, Fang Zhiyou wandered in madness, forgetting everyone's names. A woman silently protected him for three years, taking blades and bullets for him. In the end, she gave her life to secure a chance of survival for the eight hundred thousand people of Yangzhou. Before she died, she said, “Live well, Zhiyou.” Only years later did he learn the truth. He spent the rest of his life in regret and died at sea.

When he awoke, he was back in the spring of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, seven days before Su Lianyan would throw herself into the lake.

There was still time.

In this life, he had only three things to do: redeem the humble woman standing on the streets of Willow Lane, save his childhood friend from drowning herself, and lead everyone out of the blood and flames of the Ten Days of Yangzhou alive.

Then live a good life together.

A story about “flowers blooming from the dust”

Lin Pianpian, originally named “Hui'er,” was the lowest-ranked courtesan on Yangzhou's Twenty-Four Bridges. Her life could be bought for eighty taels of silver. She didn't dare look people in the eye, sit in a chair, or reach for her chopsticks first. She didn't even dare imagine that “someone might be kind to me.”

But Fang Zhiyou told her, “You deserve it.”