[Mutually devoted leads + alternate world + wuxia jianghu + happy ending + everyone’s favorite + personal growth] Shen Anran, the legitimate daughter of the General’s Manor, is betrothed to the Fourth Prince.
He tells her, “Once I ascend the throne, I’ll offer you my empire as a bride price and grant you a lifetime of glory.”
Her senior fellow disciple, a Taoist priest, travels a thousand miles to reach her, his eyes full of restrained emotion. “If you don’t want this, I’ll take you away.”
Only Li Jing, lying on his sickbed, gives a cold laugh:
“One smooth-talking prince and one dirt-poor Taoist. You actually find them appealing?”
He wields power over the court, yet may not live to see twenty.
His tongue is sharp and his heart is cold, but time and again he takes a blade for her.
As the four of them journey through the jianghu, she gradually realizes
This man, who coughs up blood all day and calls her an “idiot,” has hidden all his tenderness beneath that venomous tongue.
“Didn’t you say you wouldn’t live past twenty? Then why did you come and pursue me?”
He wipes the blood from the corner of his mouth, smiling arrogantly and bitterly. “Because I haven’t got many days left, I’m even less willing to let someone else have you.”
“So, I’m sticking with you now.”
An empire as a bride price, yet my heart cannot rest.
The Fourth Prince offers her an empire, and her senior offers her freedom.
But Li Jing, who is gravely ill, offers her himself: the rest of his life.
