She loved Xie Tinglan all her life and imprisoned him for seven years. When she finally let him go, the scars from the iron chains on his wrists remained until his death.
Xiao Che had been waiting for her all his life. Every Lantern Festival, he would stand in a corner where she could not see and watch her chase another person. In the end, he blocked the poisonous arrow for her. Before he died, he asked her: Why can't you look at me one more time?
Shen Moli died in Zhongnan Mountain at the age of sixty-two, holding a withered red lotus in his hand. On the road to hell, Xiao Che's soul waited for decades at Naihe Bridge, refusing to drink the water of forgetfulness. He said: You won't recognize her after drinking it.
She was reborn on the eve of the Lantern Festival when she was sixteen years old with all her memories. In this life, she pushed Xie Tinglan away and ran towards Xiao Che, fully thinking that as long as she turned back early enough, all three of them could live well.
But she forgot - Xie Tinglan knew nothing in her life, and neither the glint of the sword in the court nor the old blood debt hidden in the late emperor's edict would let her go.
And she still holds a red lotus seed in her hand. She doesn't know whose soil it should be planted in, so that she can find a way to survive before the destined end comes.
She ran in the wrong direction in her last life.
She looked back in this life.
But after turning back, it is harder than not turning back.
