Beneath the Canglan Sea

[Synopsis]

Adopted daughter turns into an enemy? I'll tear off their masks with my own hands!

Eighteen years ago, the Shadowscale Clan was wiped out, and I was adopted by my enemy, Shen Yuan, becoming the second daughter of the Shen family. They thought I had forgotten the blood feud and kept me like a canary in a cage. Then the bloodstained shell-shaped jade pendant reappeared, and my memories awakened. It turned out I was the true surviving treasure of the Bei Clan!

Could my enemy's son really be the one fate destined for me?

Yun Qing, the youngest deputy director of the Directorate of Astronomy, was ordered to keep an eye on me, an "abnormal." He is as cold as snow and almost heartlessly rational, yet time and again he has saved me at the brink of death. Torn between the hatred of my clan's annihilation and the gratitude I owe him for saving my life, I am caught in the torment of this forbidden love, wavering between revenge and a growing affection.

My elder brother would give his life to protect me, yet I can't break free of my entanglement with my enemy's son?

When my brother Shen Ze sacrifices himself to protect me, and Yun Qing struggles to choose between the court and his true feelings, I finally understand: there can be no winner in this game. With my wedding robes stained in blood and tears falling into the vast sea, I waver between the survival of my people and my own love and hatred. Should I sever my feelings with a blade and wash my enemies in blood, or let go of my hatred and protect all under heaven?

"A Zhu, what would you do if I wanted this whole world?"

"Yun Qing, what would you do if I wanted the lives of your entire clan?"

[Reader's Guide]

◆ Two formidable leads at odds, loving and fighting each other, with intense romantic tension

◆ A difficult choice between the fate of the nation and a blood feud

◆ The growth of a beautiful, powerful, tragic heroine, from a pawn to the one moving the pieces

◆ Political intrigue interwoven with fantasy, with an expansive scope

◆ A bleak yet magnificent ending that lingers

When the truth is revealed, we all stand at the crossroads of fate. This time, I choose...

Theme: Growth