A Dream Spanning a Thousand Autumns

[A wronged orphan's rise to power x a career-minded young general]

The main story has four volumes. Updates are relaxed on weekdays. I won't abandon it.

P.S. I'm slowly working on it, but I will finish. Sweet readers, feel free to wait until the story is complete and read it all together. Love you!

Starting in June 2026, I will revise the chapters already published. A few sections will receive major revisions, but the overall plot won't be affected.

Blurb:

To make a living and find her childhood sweetheart, she sells herself into servitude and enters the capital, only to be betrayed by him. Then, just as she is about to wither away, does spring return?

A prophecy says, "She will bring peace to the realm and take the phoenix throne; her beauty will bring chaos to the realm." The happiness she had finally found is trampled underfoot.

Meanwhile, Great Zhao is caught in turmoil.

She has always sought a peaceful, stable life, yet time and again she is dragged into the maelstrom.

From a rising star in the capital to having nothing at all, she lies low, fights back, forges alliances, and refuses to accept her fate.

He is the one who never leaves her, and he is also the one who abandoned her after first leading her on. Which of them is right, and which is wrong?

A distant cry from the Zichen Hall, engulfed in flames, brings everything to an end.

In the end, fate cannot be escaped.

May this city live up to its name: Eternal Peace, with the court forever bright and the people at peace.

[Reading Guide]

1. Told in first person.

2. The first half focuses more on romance; the second half focuses more on the plot.

3. Some place names and official systems are borrowed from the High Tang period, while others are invented. The setting is a fictional era with fictional characters and events. Please don't nitpick the history.

4. Neither lead is perfect. Every step of their growth is strewn with thorns.

5. The characters generally follow the realities of ancient China. Please proceed with caution if that's not for you.

I started this story eleven years ago, and now I'm back to finish it. Updates will begin on June 25 after the chapters are unlocked. Chapters 1-29 have been heavily revised in the original text. I have enough chapters saved up, so I won't abandon it again.

Coming soon in my collection: the Republican-era romance The Story of Liangzhou.

Dear readers, please tap to add it to your collection~

☆ The Story of Liangzhou: Blurb

In 1929, factions across the country are locked in fierce conflict.

Lan Yanzhu is the fifth daughter of Lan Qingfeng, the "King of the Northwest." She is the least favored of his concubine-born daughters, and the only one who studies.

Then she meets Zhou Xuran, a new recruit in the guard unit.

He is a light in her small, gloomy world, a pure white snowflake drifting down through the yellow sands.

In the end, though, he becomes a raging tide that leaves her world utterly ruined.

Theme: Never give up on yourself, and you can see things through to the end.