Song Lian transmigrates into a book as a disposable little prince. He's beautiful, unconventional, a spoiled playboy, and notorious for being stupid.
The most sensational thing he ever did was drunkenly kiss the Crown Prince in public.
In short, he's a joke, and he's written out of the story after just a few chapters.
Song Lian, a fortune-teller with no interest in power or men, doesn't go after the Crown Prince after arriving in the book. Instead, he heads to a remote town, sets up a fortune-telling stall, and returns to his old trade.
The townspeople who know him call him Master Duanqiao.
Then one day, a young man with an upright bearing and an air of nobility, but a pale, sickly complexion, comes to him of his own accord.
"Please tell my fortune, sir."
"What would you like to know?"
"My marriage prospects."
Looking at the man's ruthless, heartless face, Song Lian thinks that no one but Song Lian has ever gotten close to him. What marriage prospects could he possibly have? So he sincerely tells the Crown Prince, the villain of the book, "Little Sister Li, your marriage is up to fate. You should focus on the kingdom."
Li Ruoxue's gaze darkens. "Little Sister Li."
The book says Song Lian met him in the palace as a child. He was three years younger than Song Lian, frail and sickly, with such fair skin that he looked like a little girl.
The first thing Song Lian did was call him "sister."
"Then please come with me to the Eastern Palace and lend your little sister a hand."
He says please, but his voice is cold. It sounds more like an order.
Song Lian has no choice but to agree. "I'll help you, but let's get one thing straight. I'll help you ascend the throne, and then you'll set me free."
A few days later, word spreads through the capital that a masked strategist has joined the Crown Prince's side. He knows the heavens above and the earth below, but no one knows who he is.
The book says that three years after Song Lian's death, Crown Prince Ruoxue loses a political struggle and is sentenced to death by the Emperor.
Before dying, he puts on a bright red wedding robe and walks alone into an ice cellar hidden deep underground. He embraces the body in red robes that has lain in an ice coffin for three years, then quietly closes his eyes.
The only time he ever felt warmth in his life was when he was a child and a fool mistook him for a girl, called him little sister, and took him to play in the mud.
In this life, the first thing Li Ruoxue does when he wakes up is search the whole world for that fool.
But he says he wants to leave. Who gave him the nerve?
Transmigrates into a book + reborn. A steady, playful, fame-indifferent shou x a ruthless, taciturn, scheming gong.
Theme: Rise above adversity and create a beautiful future.
