[Rebirth in Ancient Times | Fated Tragic Romance | Mutual Redemption | Court Intrigue | Two Secondary Couples in an Intense Push and Pull]
Apricot blossoms fall, the Northern Palace crumbles; a Gu daughter brings fire to the south.
A prophecy declares Gu Menghan guilty in every life, doomed to suffer endless calamities, and destined to see the Northern Border destroyed.
In her previous life, she was Gu Menghan, the most cherished princess of the Northern Border, a precious jewel raised amid spring rain and apricot blossoms.
He was Mu Jingchen, a hostage from the southern lands living in the Northern Border, the enemy who trampled her vast realm and cut off her father's head.
Her country fell, her family was destroyed, and flames consumed the city.
Dressed in white and barefoot atop the city wall, she watched him ascend the throne, her eyes filled with nothing but cold murderous intent.
In the end, she leapt from the wall and swore with her death: In every life to come, they would never meet again.
History later recorded that the new king of the southern lands turned white-haired overnight, then took his own life at the same stretch of wall three days later, clutching a faded apricot-blossom hairpin.
When Gu Menghan opened her eyes again, she was reborn on the day of her cousin's wedding.
This time, all she wanted was to stay far away from that man.
But the day after the wedding at the Prince of Rong's residence, a woman with a changed face was found dead outside the city, a blood curse from the southern lands carved between her brows.
The emperor issued an edict ordering the Crown Prince, the Second Prince, and Mu Jingchen to investigate the case together.
In this life, he knows nothing of their bloody past. He doesn't understand the fear that has haunted her eyes for years. Yet, as they solve one crisis after another side by side, he willingly gives up his schemes and royal power to preserve peace between north and south.
She breaks free of the nightmare of dying for love in her previous life and finally dares to let down her guard, joining hands with the man who once destroyed her country to protect a prosperous age.
[Two Secondary Couples in an Intense Push and Pull]
The Eastern Palace's bitter couple: Crown Prince × Xie Yunheng. Their sworn-enemy families arrange their marriage; hatred comes before love. They bicker all their lives, then stand together through a palace coup.
Ash and frost: Second Prince × Su Fushuang. He takes her by force, but she cannot love him. He lets her go, and she leaves for Jiangnan, where she becomes a renowned female scholar.
