In her previous life, Jiang Wan was the Crown Princess.
She spent eight years filling three pages with letters, pouring her heart out and handing them over. In return, she received a cup of poisoned wine before the Meridian Gate and the sight of someone turning away on the city tower.
Kneeling in her wedding robes, she could not understand: How had the loyal Jiang family come to such an end?
When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to her father’s body.
Forty-three years old. Old armor. Scars from blades. Guarding Yanmen.
And her fifteen-year-old self was still alive. Still picking crab beneath the peach trees in the capital. Still writing densely packed letters to the Crown Prince. Still unaware of what lay ahead.
Two Jiang Wans, one in the past and one in the future.
One helps her father hold Yanmen, turning sword scars into city walls. The other teaches her younger self to grow armor, turning three pages of letters into four words.
Shen Yan, the man who watched her die from the city tower, has come again in this life.
He snapped a crabapple branch. He carried her letter. He said, “Tell me if anything happens.”
He discovers he cannot win the world unless one person stands on the board.
But that person is no chess piece. She is a city wall.
One-sentence synopsis: She returns from the future to live for herself, help him win the world, and change the Jiang family’s fate, then dies before him without saying another word.
Tags: Reborn | Dual timelines | Political intrigue | Tormented romance | Happy ending
The idea is clever, the heroine actually time travels into her father. I have to read this as I always like to read ancient texts. And this male protagonist is my type