After an encounter at the Moonlit Pavilion in the Ninth Heaven, Li Changxi wanted nothing more than to break off her engagement to her fiancé, Ling Yue, and reclaim her freedom.
A mishap in the medicinal pool landed her with the charge of desecrating the revered Emperor Yuan. Rong Huan was jealous that she had kissed Emperor Yuan, so she spread rumors in secret, claiming Li Changxi carried a corrupt aura and was a calamity destined to bring chaos to the Three Realms.
Ling Yue had intended to use the Li family as a stepping stone to greater things. But now rumors about Li Changxi were everywhere, and she faced two additional capital charges. Afraid of being implicated, he went to her himself and insisted on severing their engagement.
Once, she had been desperate to break it off. Now, she absolutely could not. If she did, it would be taken as an admission that every accusation was true, and her entire clan would be dragged down with her.
She was caught in a hopeless dilemma: break off the engagement and die, or stay engaged and die. The immortals of the Celestial Realm watched with cold indifference, waiting for Heaven to send down divine punishment and annihilate her soul.
Only her father, the Great Emperor Zhenwu, Li Nan, sat calmly observing, his eyes holding thoughts no one else could fathom.
Amid the turmoil before the throne, with officials impeaching her and countless immortals condemning her, Emperor Yuan of the Celestial Venerable’s Residence issued an imperial marriage decree, ordering Li Changxi to move into the Moonlit Pavilion as the “Dao Ancestor’s wife.”
The Three Realms erupted. The immortals buzzed with speculation. No longer simply waiting for her soul to be annihilated, everyone began to sniff out the possibility of a romance and watched eagerly for the latest gossip. No one could guess Emperor Yuan’s intentions, or whether this aloof supreme being meant to protect her or had some other scheme in mind.
Everyone judged her to be the root of the corrupt calamity. But beneath the currents, an ancient game spanning the ages, secretly orchestrated by Emperor Xuanxiao to seize the Origin and throw the Three Realms into turmoil, had already begun to unfold.
Theme: Break free from the rigid belief that all things must be either good or evil, and prove that the coexistence of purity and corruption is the true path to balance. Amid the entanglements of fate, seek an answer to whether love and the Great Way can coexist.
