[Protecting Each Other + Parallel-World Transmigration + Chaste Male Lead + Handsome Men Everywhere + Lustful Heroine]
Souls born of the same source, bound to one another and surviving together.
Yun Ling jolted awake, only to be dragged into the Great Ning Dynasty by another version of herself from a parallel world, who was falling off a cliff and close to death.
On a rainy night in a deserted forest, she rescued the Ninth Prince, Gong Jiuxiao, who was covered in blood. They were the same age and shared the same birthday, and they could feel each other's pain and share each other's dreams. When he fell off a cliff, she dreamed of plummeting. When he nearly drowned, she gasped for breath in her sleep.
Though he was a prince, Gong Jiuxiao lived like a nobody whose life was worth less than grass.
His birth mother was imprisoned in the Cold Palace, while he was openly humiliated and secretly persecuted.
To protect this version of herself, who had suffered so much, Yun Ling willingly entered the game. She had always been drawn to beauty, and a handsome man was bound to set her heart fluttering. But no matter how much her heart stirred, power struggles always came before love.
Sitting face-to-face with Ji Qingfeng, she discussed matters of the heart. He asked gravely, "Did you approach me for love, or to use me?"
Yun Ling smiled, candid and unflinching. "Both. But all I've ever wanted is to keep Gong Jiuxiao safe and sound."
Facing Chong'an, a Buddhist monk who had taken the tonsure but not left the secular world, a man of serene passions who saw through worldly affairs, she lured him in step by step, chuckling softly. "The Imperial Preceptor sees through fate itself. Could you divine who can keep him alive?"
Romance and sincerity were both bargaining chips. She maneuvered between two men who wielded power over the imperial court, carving out a path to survival.
Gong Jiuxiao was not someone who would always hide behind her, either. In desperate circumstances, he changed and grew, shedding his cautious cowardice. When he finally held power in his hands, he was willing to defy the entire court to protect Yun Ling.
Yun Ling: I want romance, and I'll borrow power. All I ask is that the two of us no longer have to live on a knife's edge.
