She is Bai Fengjiu, the only nine-tailed red fox in all the realms, and the future queen of Qingqiu.
Once, she chased after love for two thousand years, battered and bruised, only to find the words “destined to never be together” carved on the Three Lives Stone.
Now she inherits the phoenix crown and vows to guard the realm for three years, locking away both that hopeless love and her girlish heart deep within the crown.
She thinks this is the end.
He is Donghua Dijun, once master of life and death across the six realms. He has returned with complete memories of another timeline, where they married, had a child, and he proved his love by cutting out his heart.
But the Heavenly Dao issues a decree: if he forcibly alters cause and effect, the person whose fate is changed will gradually lose their true feelings in this life.
He remembers them growing old together. She remembers only a love that came to nothing.
He cannot say the words “I love you.” All he can do is turn the depth of his feelings into an all-encompassing scheme.
He does not attend the ceremony in which she becomes queen. Instead, he sends Siming with a map of a mountain-and-river battlefield that no longer exists, along with a message: “Compared to the vastness of this world, some things are of little consequence.”
The immortals think he is advising her to let go. As thousands of foxes bow before her, she calmly thanks them. When she turns away, her tassels hide the redness at the corners of her eyes. She smiles with regal composure, though her fingertips nearly dig into her palms.
Before the Kunlun Mirror in Taichen Palace, he watches her walk away, each inch of his heart turning to ice.
When the weight of the phoenix crown outweighs the weight of memory, and she must first become the queen who protects all living beings before she can once more become the “Xiao Bai” in his arms...
In this reunion divided by time and fate, can she fall in love again with the purple-robed deity who shields her from every storm, relying not on memories but on the heart she has in this life?
I didn't expect it to be the same author as Dijun, Your Little Fox Doesn't Recognize You. Why do you like plots like mystery cases so much? It's really not suitable for the protagonist theme of Donghua and Fengjiu. Others search for this theme because of the emotional pull. It doesn't matter whether you are a BE or a HE. It's not that the case is drawn out. After a few chapters, I don't feel like I want to continue reading.
The reasoning behind it is too long.