【The Consort’s Devoted Shadow Guard × The Emperor Who Alone Can Hear Her Thoughts | Mutual Protection | A Fateful Love】
Yun Ji is one of the greatest shadow guards in the Three Realms. For a thousand years, he has followed his strict code, living to protect Ling Jue alone.
Who could have imagined that the Heavenly Dao would send them both into a deadly mortal trial of love, plunging them into a story about a fallen kingdom and setting a fateful game in motion?
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They reunite on a rainy night in the Cold Palace. Ling Jue suddenly gains the ability to read minds and begins hearing her inner thoughts all day long:
【Don’t accept Su Qingyuan’s calming talisman! It hides a deadly scheme that will destroy all your cultivation!】
【Prince Jing has secretly amassed troops and is plotting rebellion. If you let this go on, the empire will fall!】
【No, no, no! The young lord is the most beautiful person in all three realms. He absolutely cannot fall for that white lotus Su Qingyuan!】
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In the game set up by the Heavenly Dao, Su Qingyuan, the original heroine, hides behind a gentle facade as she lies in wait deep within the palace. Burdened by a blood feud, she plots at every turn to beguile him, the emperor. The court officials each have their own agendas, hostile vassal kings watch hungrily from beyond the borders, and the kingdom’s foretold downfall draws ever closer...
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Everyone who approaches him covets power, status, and wealth, with hidden schemes of their own. Only Yun Ji has stayed by his side for a thousand years, her heart unchanged, wanting only to keep him safe. All her careful plans are meant to shield him from harm. Even when she praises his looks, she means every word, with no ulterior motive:
“The whole palace is full of people hiding knives in their hearts. You alone have risked everything for me for a thousand years.”
“Protecting the young lord is simply my duty, carved into my soul.”
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Once, she hid alone in the shadows and faced every danger by herself. Now Ling Jue takes her hand, determined to use his imperial power to keep her safe.
Only after the court and the country are at peace does Ling Jue finally understand: this perilous love trial, where truth and illusion are hard to tell apart, was never meant for the story’s white lotus heroine. From beginning to end, the one bound to him by fate is the first shadow guard who has followed him for a thousand years.
