On the night of the proxy wedding, Su Qingwan was sent to the Gu household to marry Gu Heng, a condemned official who was due to be executed the next day.
The whole capital was waiting to see her spend her life mourning a dead man. All she wanted was to protect her younger sister, clear her father’s name, and make it out of this city that devoured people alive.
But on the eve of the execution, the man who should have been dead returned, covered in blood, with no memory and nowhere to call home. He took blows for her and held an umbrella over her. When he trapped her in his arms, his voice was hoarse and commanding. “Su Qingwan, stay close to me. Whoever dares lay a hand on you, I’ll kill him first.”
But Gu Heng didn’t know he wasn’t a convicted official. He was the Emperor of Cangyuan, ruler of the stars and reincarnation in the Ninth Heaven. Su Qingwan didn’t know she was the only destined love tribulation written in the Book of Trials.
He was supposed to abandon her and reclaim his throne at the moment he loved her most. She was supposed to be the mortal attachment he had to leave behind to attain the Dao.
Yet the fires of war, a wrongful military supply case, out-of-control astral marks, and the Heavenly Gate’s deadly summons all came one after another. When Heaven demanded that she fill the Gate and that he return to his throne, Su Qingwan tore up the Book of Trials, and Gu Heng severed his imperial seal.
“I can give up my divine throne, but I can’t give you up.”
This time, the god descended into the mortal world not to learn how to lose.
He came to tear destiny apart with her, and turn it into a road that led home.
