[The ethereal girl who is his cherished first love × the ruthless young prince]
I.
When Wei Tongshang was seventeen, someone publicly asked for his hand in marriage at court, provoking the emperor's fury and stirring up gossip throughout the court.
The one who sought his hand, Prince Ling Shang Wuyi, was fabulously wealthy, with a pair of calm, submissive eyes and a ruthless ambition hidden deep within.
Everyone said the young prince was mad, and when his illness struck, he recognized no one. Wei Tongshang's life would surely be miserable if he married a madman.
Wei Tongshang saw the prince's immense fortune and married him.
After the wedding, they should have kept out of each other's way. That is, until Wei Tongshang accidentally witnessed the young Prince Ling's madness flare up.
The usually aloof, silent young man was curled up in a corner, watching him with wary, unfamiliar eyes, like a small child.
Facing this prince, who was peerlessly powerful and taciturn when lucid, and who could kill a man as easily as crushing an ant,
Wei Tongshang produced a huge cloth tiger, his eyes shining. “Call me Big Brother.”
Later, the cloth tiger disappeared without a trace.
II.
Shang Wuyi did not love Wei Tongshang, but Wei Tongshang did not love Shang Wuyi either.
When Shang Wuyi's illness struck, he was adorable. He knew Wei Tongshang and was willing to call him Big Brother.
When Prince Ling was lucid, he manipulated the tides of power and turned the world in his hands. He could sacrifice anything, including Wei Tongshang's life.
In his previous life, Wei Tongshang died quietly, without a sound.
Reborn into another life, Wei Tongshang no longer wanted to be a prince consort. He agreed to the marriage, accepted his death sentence, and wanted nothing at all in this life.
But Shang Wuyi suddenly no longer wanted him to die.
The night Wei Tongshang fell into a snowy ravine and lay unconscious, Shang Wuyi's eyes were bloodshot as he begged him, like a madman, to stay alive.
III.
The young Prince Ling, Shang Wuyi, had a secret.
He was not mad. To claim the throne, he had been pretending to be insane all along.
In his previous life, he married an ethereal being and brought him into his household. One was the moon in the heavens, the other dust on the ground. They would never meet.
Later, the ethereal being died before his eyes, buried beneath the heavy snow in his cold clothes.
He killed everyone who had caused his death, but the ethereal being would never return to smile and stroke his head.
Reborn into another life,
everyone noticed that Shang Wuyi had become even madder.
Because the ethereal being had been kind to the version of him who pretended to be mad.
He was willing to remain mad forever.
*The blurb underwent major revisions before the novel began, so it is no longer the same as the one posted with the advance notice.
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Theme: Cherish the present, dare to make amends for past mistakes, and embrace the future.
