The Changting River lies cold, snow seals a thousand mountains, and the moon over the Frozen Abyss shines cold, covering the divide between immortals and demons.
Lu Qingheng transmigrates into a book as a cannon-fodder character who shares his name. Just as the demon clan's young lord, Chu Jinglan, leaves him gravely wounded and on the verge of death, he is swept into the vortex of conflict between immortals and demons. With his life hanging by a thread, he is saved by Shen Yanci, Lord of the Frozen Abyss Mountain, who makes an exception and takes him on as a personal disciple.
Shen Yanci is the most transcendent figure in the Three Realms, the Lord of the Immortal Domain, cool and noble, with an otherworldly bearing. His eyes hold the snows of ten thousand ages, yet he makes an exception for Lu Qingheng, indulging him and teaching him lunar cultivation techniques. He protects him from harm, keeping all his tenderness hidden in a quiet, unmistakable fondness.
Chu Jinglan carries the demon clan's bitter legacy of blood and vengeance. Lying in wait at the Frozen Abyss, he is possessive and ruthless, his obsession consuming him to the bone. He regards Shen Yanci as the fixation of his life, and Lu Qingheng's arrival becomes the most glaring obstacle in his eyes. He closes in step by step, his murderous intent plain.
Bound by a master-disciple bond and the fate of immortals and demons, love, hatred, resentment, and longing are all trapped in the mist and snow of Changting.
Armed with his foreknowledge from having transmigrated into a book, Lu Qingheng defies fate and changes his destiny. He cultivates his way to a comeback and resists Chu Jinglan's ever-advancing murderous schemes, while sinking irretrievably into Shen Yanci's overwhelming tenderness and restraint. After glimpsing the tragic ending in the original story, where his master is reduced to a wandering soul and his disciple slaughters the entire immortal sect, he resolves to shield him with his own body and bear the storm that threatens to destroy the world.
Snow falls on the Frozen Abyss, the moon rises over Changting, and war between immortals and demons is on the verge of erupting. The duty of their sect and the love in their hearts are at odds, and the pieces of fate have long been set on the board.
He will part the mists of Changting, protect the moon in his heart, and rewrite the ending of the divide between immortals and demons. He will melt the snow of the Frozen Abyss into tenderness wrapped around his fingers, and scatter the river-locking fog into a vast river of stars, so he can stand with that person beneath Changting's bright moon, safe and sound year after year.
Powerful master and disciple | Transmigrate-into-a-book comeback | Devoted master | Possessive disciple | Bittersweet xianxia | Happy ending
Theme: Break free from the fate that divides immortals and demons, and shatter the constraints of the master-disciple hierarchy. With the courage to defy fate, protect a love that runs deep and lasts forever. Beyond sides, beyond right and wrong, wherever the heart leads is home. What does it matter if mist cloaks Changting? With deep love, embrace the bright moon over the Frozen Abyss and protect peace year after year.
