A Dream in the Garden

#Oh!

#Even after being reborn, His Highness Prince Qi is still a hopeless romantic!

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The Prince of Qi’s manor was decorated with red silk and all manner of festive ornaments, ready to host a grand wedding celebration.

On the eve of his wedding, Prince Qi Lu Zhen was assassinated in a side room of his own manor.

The culprit was Zhong Qinyin, his bride-to-be.

Only then did Lu Zhen learn that the woman by his side was Hua Jiu, an assassin from the Tianyuan Sect.

His death was so unjust that when he opened his eyes again, Lu Zhen had been reborn three months before the assassination.

He swore he would never repeat his past mistakes. He would kill Zhong Qinyin and avenge himself.

He picked up his sword and stormed over to Zhong Qinyin.

At that moment, Zhong Qinyin was sick and listless, lying in bed and sobbing in her sleep.

He had never been able to stand seeing her cry.

After a moment’s hesitation, he set his sword aside, went to the bed, sat down, took her hand, and gently soothed her back to sleep.

Looking back on it afterward, Lu Zhen wanted to slap himself twice across the face

You useless fool!!!

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The preface to The Peony Pavilion says:

“Love comes from nowhere, yet grows deep and strong. The living may die for it, the dead may live again. To live without sharing death, or die without returning to life, is not the deepest love.”

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Before being reborn, Lu Zhen: An utterly ordinary hopeless romantic.

After being reborn: A hopeless romantic who says one thing and means another.

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■■■ [Readers who only like one kind of pairing, please don’t start this story!]■■■

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*Cover image by Zhao Boju, a painter of the Southern Song dynasty

*Character designs by Chen Mei, a painter of the Qing dynasty

Theme: Life’s lesson is to keep moving forward and never look back.