Qu Tan'er was reborn. When she opened her eyes, she was back on the eve of her fifteenth birthday. In her previous life, she had watched Mo Yihuai be pierced by countless arrows and die right before her eyes. This time, she would no longer back down or keep her feelings bottled up. Before the imperial edict was even issued, she publicly rejected the Eighth Prince's marriage proposal and declared that her heart belonged to the First Prince, Mo Yihuai. The entire hall was stunned, while Mo Yihuai looked at her deeply from across the crowd. She carefully planned each step and took the initiative in pursuing love, turning the emperor's decision around through her own efforts and saving Mo Yihuai from dying in battle. But the price of the Soul-Suppressing Pearl was too cruel. Every time she changed life and death, every time she used its power, it consumed a memory of him. As she desperately tried to draw closer to him, she uncontrollably forgot him. Their first handhold, their first embrace, and the first time she said “I love you” all vanished from her mind. Mo Yihuai noticed something was wrong with her, but he asked nothing and blamed her for nothing. He simply stayed by her side day and night, stubbornly leading her back along their old paths again and again, helping her get to know him and fall in love with him all over again. “It doesn't matter if you forget,” he said, taking her hand. “I'll help you remember again.” But when the Soul-Suppressing Pearl's ultimate choice came, she had to make one final decision between “changing fate completely” and “forgetting the one she loved forever.” Qu Tan'er looked at him and smiled. In this life, she had long understood that she had returned reborn not to change his death, but to become worthy of his life. She would change fate, and she would have him. She wanted both. She didn't need to be reborn to recognize him.
