Power and Schemes in the Sound of the Sheng [Transmigrated to the Three Kingdoms]

[New novel: The Moon Over Yanshan Is Like a Hook is now updating. Synopsis below.]

[About this novel] Mu Sheng was an archaeologist skilled in mechanisms, spending her days exploring tombs and digging up graves. Then, in a flash, she was reborn in the Three Kingdoms era as Lu Bu's daughter? From being the daughter of a notorious turncoat, despised by all, to discovering that she was fated to be a bringer of doom, she grows stronger amid the smoke of war. The boundless coldness behind the tenderness of the legendary Shu chancellor becomes a matter of strategy. She sings out a mournful farewell in the cottage, crosses the mist over the river, and brings her mysterious, beautiful woman's schemes to bear, only to unexpectedly meet the young Marquis of Wu's tender affection... The lords carve up the land as war rages everywhere. After sailing through countless storms, when they look back, who will still be there, pondering with them...

[New novel synopsis]

The Moon Over Yanshan Is Like a Hook

In the seventh year of Xianning, Xiao Huan, the eldest legitimate son of Emperor Yonglie and Empress Wen, was born.

Before Xiao Huan's birth, the State Preceptor observed the heavens and made a prediction:

"This child is destined to be the Tianfu Star. He has the talent to serve as a chief minister, and he will be the last morning star to lead Great Yong from decline to prosperity."

So Emperor Yonglie followed the prediction of the State Preceptor, Sixiang, and secretly had Xiao Huan taken out of the palace after his birth, to be raised by the abbot of Tianshan Temple.

Ten days later, the child was secretly sent to the Yuan family in Yubei City, Langzhou, the home of Empress Wen's younger sister's husband. Thus, Xiao Huan became Yuan Yun, the eldest son of the Yuan family.

On the seventh day of the eleventh month in the fifteenth year of Xianning, the entire Liang clan was executed, wiped out completely.

The person responsible for killing Liang Yan's entire family was Emperor Yonglie, Xiao Liang.

Covered in wounds, Liang Yan was taken out of the palace. There, she witnessed her relatives' dismembered bodies and the ruin left in their wake.

At that moment, she broke down. Her senses failed her, and after her senior brother knocked her unconscious, he carried her away.

In the sixth year of Huangchu, Liang Yan and Xiao Huan met in person for the first time.

At the gates of Langzhou, a woman knelt on the ground while a man sat in a carriage.

The carriage curtain separated heaven and earth, and they gazed at one another from afar.

"Why block the road?"

"It's how I make a living."

"Why kneel?"

"I kneel for the bones of the dead and the living people, for the poor of Great Yong, for a world worn by hardship where people's hearts have not died, and for clear rivers across the four seas and peace throughout the nine provinces."

Many years later, Liang Yan finally understood that the peaceful world she dreamed of was also what Xiao Huan sought.

But the peace she sought could not be granted by Great Yong.

And the peace he sought could only be granted by Great Yong.

[Reading Guide / Content Warnings]

1. An alternate history. The setting and logic serve the plot, so please don't nitpick the historical details.

2. A cold-hearted, obsessive orphan seeking revenge x a seemingly gentle young master who's secretly a ruthless schemer.

3. The leads have no other partners and remain devoted to each other, one-on-one, happy ending. The hero falls first.

4. The heroine has a past love, and the hero has been married before, but neither matters.

5. The heroine was reborn in the womb. There are also two secondary characters, one reborn and one who transmigrates.

The synopsis was screenshotted and archived on April 7, 2023.