One-on-one, happy ending, both virgins [The spirited Wolf King of the Northern Frontier x a Tantric saintess longing for freedom]
At the foot of Helan Mountain, the Buddhist temples of two nations gather at White Pagoda Temple to debate the Dharma.
On his way back to the capital, Ye Xun decides to stop and see what the fuss is about. Along the way, he casually saves a frail blind girl named Shi Ying. One night, the two somehow practice the Blissful Zen together. His boyhood kung fu, which he has trained in for years, is broken. He intends to marry her, but she suddenly disappears.
He only finds out later that she was chosen by the Tantric sect of Xiliang to be its consort, destined to offer herself to the master and attain the Dao through dual cultivation.
He rides into Xiliang, hoping to beg Buddha for mercy. But beneath the golden lacquer of the Tantric sect's statues lie piles of bones, and hidden there is a wicked art of soul manipulation that everyone covets.
On the day the consort ascends the altar, a Han man suddenly charges in with a spear. The young woman on the sacred altar stares at him in disbelief. "Don't come in. Run!"
But the man acts as if he hasn't heard her. He raises his spear and points it at the golden Buddha, looking down on the assembled monks.
"If Buddha won't save you, I will!"
Everyone in Xiliang says the saintess is the reincarnation of the Buddha's mother, and that seeing her brings good fortune while worshipping her brings salvation. Only she knows that the saintess is just a courtesan in the name of serving Buddha.
She thought she could never escape this filthy fate, but then she happened upon a patch of clear starlight.
Yet soon the two nations went to war. With nowhere to turn, she fled under cover of night, carrying a child he didn't yet know about.
Three years later, to get treatment for her child, she agrees to a marriage proposal from a local gentryman. But the next morning, the Northern Frontier's iron cavalry surrounds her home.
The young man astride his horse gleams in golden armor beneath the sun. Handsome beyond compare, he glares at her, brimming with murderous fury. "I'm not even dead yet, and you're already in a hurry to remarry?!"
[Reader's guide]
1. The heroine isn't really blind. There is a fleeing-while-pregnant plotline, and the baby is a daughter.
2. This is not a story about a powerful heroine. Neither lead is perfect.
3. The era is fictional, so please don't nitpick. The setting is modeled on the Northern Song dynasty.
(Blurb written on July 21, 2026, and proof has been preserved.)
Theme: Treasure the person by your side.
