He searched for a nameless shadow, while she heard rumors of someone who shared her name. By the time the mystery was solved, nothing remained but ruin.
Chu Zhining once held an offer from a prestigious overseas art school. She should have had a brilliant future ahead of her.
An unexpected disaster made her lose every tie she had in the modern world. Despairing and with nothing left to hope for, her soul drifted into another world, where layer upon layer of fog sealed away the secrets of her past life.
A marriage contract was once proposed to bind her to Li Yicheng, a prince with power over the entire court, but he flatly rejected it.
Everyone knew that this cold, ruthless, and obsessive powerbroker, who held the realm in his hands, had someone in his heart whom he had searched for in vain. For her sake, he refused to marry for life and kept his distance from women. No one knew who the mysterious figure he was so fixated on really was.
Fate kept intertwining their lives, and they crossed paths again and again.
Chu Zhining thought it was just an ordinary coincidence that someone else had the same name. It never occurred to her that she was the very person he had spent half his life searching for.
Adrift in another world, she encountered all kinds of sincerity and deceit.
With the skills she had learned in the modern world, all she wanted was to live peacefully and protect those around her. Yet she had already fallen deep into the trap fate had laid.
When trouble erupted and clues long buried were gradually revealed, Li Yicheng finally realized that the beloved he had searched for all these years had been right in front of him all along.
But just as the truth was about to come to light, a fatal misunderstanding suddenly drove them apart. Her old memories had not returned, and their feelings lay in ruins.
With her heart turned to ashes, she hid the child she carried and disappeared into the crowd under an assumed name.
When the powerbroker's obsession became all-consuming and regret cut to the bone, he searched across the vast land for the woman he had lost.
