[The previous book, A Journey Through Taiqing, tells the story of Lord Wang Shushu during the Age of Divine Order.]
Recently, when the famously cold and passionless Crown Prince of Changyue Kingdom returned from his travels, he brought back an otherworldly-looking Imperial Preceptor. He carefully installed him in Qiongxiao Hall and loved him with all his heart, yet never laid a finger on him.
At last, one day, an attendant in Qiongxiao Hall couldn't take it anymore and asked, "Your Highness, if you love the Imperial Preceptor, why not tell him how you feel?"
Shen Wangshu gazed at the painting on the wall and smiled without a word. The Grand Imperial Preceptor was wonderful, but he would be even better if he didn't look so much like the person Shen Wangshu had always cherished in his heart...
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The thing Yin Zhexue regretted most was failing to protect Shen Wangshu when the mad obsession ran rampant, and having to watch helplessly as Shen Wangshu sacrificed himself to the formation and died.
Fortunately, Heaven was kind to him, allowing him to return to the very beginning, before any of the schemes had started.
He swore he would change their fate and protect Shen Wangshu's peaceful life, even if it cost him his own.
Even if he could never replace the cinnabar mole hidden in Shen Wangshu's heart...
Until they returned once more to the day the mad obsession ran rampant and the mountains and rivers stood on the brink of ruin. Spiritual light scattered wildly through the sky.
Shen Wangshu and Yin Zhexue received the fragments of memory falling like snow, and suddenly realized that each other's gaze had been fixed on them from beginning to end.
Shen Wangshu: "The cinnabar mole?"
Yin Zhexue: "The white moonlight?"
Well, turns out I was my own replacement!
Reborn Imperial Preceptor gong (Yin Zhexue) x reincarnated Crown Prince shou (Shen Wangshu)
1v1, happy ending
"All I ask is for peace and prosperity across the land, and tranquility throughout the four seas."
Theme: New life can be found even in the direst of circumstances.
