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In the seventh year of Xianning, Emperor Yonglie and Empress Wen's eldest legitimate son was born. He was named Xiao Huan.
Before Xiao Huan was born, the Imperial Astrologer observed the heavens and made this prophecy:
“This child is destined to be the Star of Heavenly Assistance. He has the talent to serve as a chief minister and will be the last morning star to lead Great Yong from decline to prosperity.”
So, following the prophecy of Imperial Astrologer Situ, Emperor Yonglie secretly had Xiao Huan taken out of the palace after his birth and placed in the care of the abbot of Tianshan Temple.
Ten days later, he was secretly sent to the Yuan family in Yubei City, Langzhou, the family of Empress Wen's brother-in-law. Thus Xiao Huan became the Yuan family's eldest son, Yuan Yun.
On the seventh day of the eleventh month in the fifteenth year of Xianning, the entire Liang clan was sentenced to death by beheading. They were utterly destroyed.
The one responsible for killing Liang Yan's entire family was Emperor Yonglie, Xiao Liang.
After Liang Yan was taken from the palace, covered in wounds, she saw with her own eyes the terrible sight of her relatives' decapitated bodies lying in ruins.
At that moment, she broke down. Her senses deserted her, and her senior brother knocked her unconscious and carried her away.
The sixth year of Huangchu was the first time Liang Yan and Xiao Huan truly met.
At the gates of Langzhou City, a woman knelt and bowed low, while a man sat upright in a carriage.
The carriage curtain separated heaven from earth as they gazed at each other from afar.
“Why block the road?”
“To make a living.”
“Why kneel?”
“I kneel for the dead and the living, for the poor of Great Yong, for a world battered by hardship and the hearts that refuse to die, and for peace across the four seas and the nine provinces.”
Many years later, Liang Yan finally understood that the peace she sought was also what Xiao Huan sought.
But the peace she sought was not something Great Yong could provide.
And the peace he sought could only be provided by Great Yong.
[Reading Guide / Content Warnings]
1. An alternate-history setting. The worldbuilding and logic serve the plot, so please don't nitpick historical details.
2. A cold-hearted, obsessive orphan seeking revenge × a seemingly gentle young master who is secretly ruthless.
3. Both leads are each other's only sexual partners. One-on-one romance, happy ending, and the male lead falls first.
4. The female lead has a white moonlight, and the male lead was once married, but neither of those things matters.
5. The female lead was transmigrated into the womb. There are also two secondary characters, one reborn and one who transmigrated.
The blurb was screenshotted and archived on 2023/4/7.
Message: Among the world's many injustices and justices, all seek one thing: the Way
