His name is Shang. A hundred lifetimes of reincarnation, ten deaths, never for himself.
First life, the sixteenth year of the Republic, the Huaisi Marshal’s residence.
A zither player who dies and comes back to life, an assassin who performs opera to avenge herself, an adjutant striving to secure his position as marshal, a clingy and tiresome concubine, a female student beginning to accept being loved, and a former concubine who flees to Shanghai with no idea where to go: in Huaisi in 1927, each carries their own secrets, seeks a way to survive, and faces life and death.
She is the most beautiful woman in the opera world, gentle as water, with a blade hidden in her sleeve. To avenge her master, she puts herself in the game.
Every time he dies, he drinks Meng Po’s soup, yet every time he returns with his memories intact.
In the marshal’s residence, the Sixth Concubine wants to escape, the Fifth Concubine wants to kill, the Seventh Concubine waits for the show to begin, and the female student records everything from the shadows.
Everyone makes a move on the board, and everyone thinks they are the one in control.
Only he never enters the game.
Because his game lies beyond ten lifetimes.
With the bones of ten lifetimes, he paves her path to spring in this world.
She breaks free of fate and returns, giving him a homecoming at the end of his lives.
Ten Lifetimes: A Journey Through the Ages
Life | Era
First | 1927, the Republic of China, Huaisi
Second | 2025, the modern metropolis
Third | Northern Song, Bianjing
Fourth | High Tang, Chang’an
Fifth | Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Jiangnan
Sixth | Late Ming, the southwest
Seventh | Late Qing, the treaty ports
Eighth | Western Regions, Loulan
Ninth | An imagined Song dynasty, the martial world
Tenth | The beginning of fate
She is reborn in spring; his cycle of reincarnation reaches its end.
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