Locking Away the Green

Mo Suolu Zhen finds it strange. How did her usually well-behaved younger brother get involved with the son of the former leader of the martial arts world? How did she end up agreeing to help them, to the point of disguising herself as Li Qiaotai and wandering the martial world? And how did she so strangely encounter an injured man? As the truth behind his being hunted is gradually revealed, how did things spiral so far out of control that even she could no longer manage them?

He saved her at someone's request. Who could have known he would stay by her side for so long, yet never let her see his true face, while day after day his talent left her amazed?

When he left that day, why did she, who had always wanted so little, feel the urge to ask him to stay?

Sent by the steward to find Taihu stones to decorate the garden, she is accidentally drawn into yet another martial-world crisis.

Once again, he is the one who saves her. Could he really be the person she has been searching for all along?

Just as her feelings grow difficult to contain, she sees him drinking and laughing with someone else, playing the qin and dancing. Could he be that astonishingly talented, sickly Hanlin scholar, the young master of the Lu family where she is temporarily staying, Lu Weishuang, the only person ever permitted to skip court?

In that world of books beyond the ordinary, what a marvelous decree of iron and cinnabar. Could he also be connected to all the many factions in the martial world?

Who is he, really?

Which version of him is the real one?

And which one holds her true feelings?

Is this coincidence, or was it planned all along?

Or is it simply his way of toying with her?

As it turns out, you and I are just as Lin Yuan once foretold: