Lu Yuan is reborn at the age of fifteen. Remembering how she was forced to enter the palace in her previous life, she resolves to change her fate this time around.
But since she still has three years before she has to enter the palace, and she rarely left home in her previous life because of her health, Lu Yuan decides to spend a year having fun first.
So, on the day of the Shangyuan Festival lantern fair, Lu Yuan finishes guessing the riddles but fails to win the lantern she wants. Just as she is about to leave, a young man suddenly calls out to her.
He introduces himself as Pei Ziye. He looks aggressive, as if he's there to pick a fight.
But blushing, he hands her the rabbit lantern she's been longing for.
Looking at the young general who died on the battlefield in her previous life, Lu Yuan feels a surge of emotion.
But afterward, whenever she goes out, she keeps running into him, and Lu Yuan begins to wonder what he's up to.
When her maid repeatedly insists that Pei Ziye has designs on her...
Lu Yuan understands. Pei Ziye is young and bashful. He wants to join the army but is too embarrassed to call on her father directly.
So he's taking the roundabout approach of befriending her to achieve his goal.
Once she's figured it out, Lu Yuan decides to help Pei Ziye make his wish come true.
Bonus scene:
Lu Yuan: Pei Ziye came to see me because he must want me to introduce him to my father so he can join the army and fulfill his ambitions.
I have to hurry and tell my father so I can give Pei Ziye a hand.
Pei Ziye: Lu Yuan is letting me meet her father so soon. She understood my feelings before I even confessed. We really are bound together in this life and the last, so in sync with each other.
But isn't this a little too hasty? Should I first show up at her door with a lavish bridal procession and ask for her hand?
Cool and dignified in public, willful little troublemaker in private x a general who can be fierce or sweet and strives for love
Reader's guide:
1. Both leads are reborn, each other's first love, and this has a happy ending.
2. Early on, the leads have a stretch of talking past each other, as their minds are on completely different wavelengths.
3. A sweet little romance.
Theme: Don't be prejudiced. Strive for love.
