Jade Piercer

In the winter of the nineteenth year of the Zhenning era, Yuan father and son set out on an expedition to Liaodong. They became embroiled in a mystery there, and young Yuan Yu accidentally fell to his death from a steep cliff, dying far from home.

From then on, a lonely grave a thousand miles away was buried in the heart of Ming Yao, the imperial princess who had been betrothed to Yuan Yu in their youth.

Against all expectations, Ming Yao became husband and wife in name only with He Suiran, the chancellor's son whom she had known as a boy.

The imperial princess possessed unparalleled wealth and glory. Clinging to her youthful memories, she dragged her ailing body through the years until she finally withered away at twenty-eight. Then she learned from her closest family that the gentle young man, once as bright and pure as a pine tree in the snow, had not died by accident. Ming Yao died suddenly.

After being reborn, Ming Yao repeatedly found herself lost in dreams, caught between the fates of her past and present lives. She began to navigate the tangled relationships among several old friends who cared deeply for her, trying to uncover the truth.

Until the future general who would one day gallop across battlefields and rout enemy forces marched toward her, step by step. He spoke with easy laughter, hiding tenderness beneath it and the resolve to burn his bridges behind him.

Through years of hardship, they came together like a storm. The two tested each other, withering in the mire even as they bloomed like a wildfire that could never be extinguished.

Thirteen years passed in a flash, like flowers in a mirror, gone with the fall of the leaves.

Ming Yao: "Who are you?"

Theme: Weather the storm, then look up to find a rainbow.