Ninth Jade Jue

When ancient book restorer Shen Zhiqiu was restoring a batch of cultural relics unearthed from Qin tombs, he accidentally triggered the memory of his past life in a broken jade. She discovered that she had been entangled with the archaeologist Gu Yanshen for nine lifetimes spanning two thousand years - in each lifetime, she was the woman who died for him; in each lifetime, he was the lonely soul who came looking for her. The person who secretly pushed all this was Lu Li, the derelict judge of the Reincarnation Department. He privately released a wisp of his obsessive soul into the world, and agreed that for ten lifetimes, if he collected nine pieces of jade, he could break the cycle of reincarnation. But when the ninth piece of broken jade returned to its place, the truth was far crueler than the memory: On the altar of the first life, the arrow that shot her came from his most "affectionate" calculation. "I shot that arrow to let you go. To let you leave the ruins of Chu State and let you enter reincarnation. I thought we could be together in the next life. But I forgot that killing someone's soul privately will be punished. I will be punished for nine lives to search for it, nine lives to miss it, and nine lives to watch you die in front of me." Love is the original selfishness. Reincarnation is the price of selfishness. And what they finally learned in the tenth life was not to break the reincarnation, but to accept their fate.