Legend has it that a cold, mysterious flower blooms in the frozen lands on the road to the underworld. It symbolizes death and parting.
It blooms once every thousand years and falls once every thousand years. When the leaves fall, the flowers bloom. The leaves and flowers share the same root, yet can never meet.
Lan Shan and Hua Yixuan are the reincarnations of the leaves and flowers of the same plant. In their first life, the leaf withered first; in their second, the flower faded first; and in their third, they both died for love. But when Hua Yixuan opened his eyes again, he found that he hadn’t entered a fourth life. Instead, he had been reborn at a point in the third life before he met Lan Shan. This time, Hua Yixuan had no interest in championing love and justice. All he wanted was to take off his uniform and follow his boss, living a loving life together without envy of the mandarin ducks or immortals...