The orphaned daughter of a condemned official, Lu Jian Yue, VS the scheming prince, Li Yizhi
The love-hate story of the scumbag father and birth mother of Su Xiaonian, the heroine of Peach Blossoms Bloom Year After Year.
In the forty-seventh year of the Jingrui era of the Great Jin dynasty, the powerful Chancellor Lu's household in the capital is executed, root and branch, overnight. After interrogating the Lu family in the case of their entire clan, Crown Prince Li Yizhi, who oversees the Censorate, folds up the file on which he has marked names in red ink. The resentment that has been building in his heart for so long finally spills out.
The moment he steps out of the prison, torrential rain pours down, wrapping the entire capital in a dark and gloomy night like ink. Suddenly, a familiar, gentle call seems to pass by his ear.
Could it be her!?
But how could she possibly be here?
Li Yizhi shakes his head in a daze, turns around, and climbs into the sedan chair headed for the Eastern Palace.
The stench of blood is so thick it won't dissipate, mingling with the dull, rotten smell that has soaked into the executioner's block over the years.
Lu Jian Yue kneels beside the icy wooden block. Coarse ropes dig into her wrists, leaving a glaring ring of red.
Behind her, a sea of people kneels in black. The members of the once-prosperous Chancellor Lu's household are now all like lambs waiting to be slaughtered.
Suppressed sobs, desperate gasps, and the execution supervisor's cold recital of their crimes weave together into a cacophony.
So noisy.
Lu Jian Yue frowns slightly. She tries to move her stiff fingers, only for the soldiers restraining her to press down harder.
The instant the executioner's gleaming blade rises, a familiar, graceful figure flashes through her mind. Just as she closes her eyes in despair, a horse whinnies, its cry ringing across the execution ground.
A pale yellow figure, a color reserved for the highest rank, bursts into the execution ground.
"Your Highness, this is the execution ground. These are the Lu family's surviving traitors..."
"Your Highness, you personally marked every name on the list of the Lu family members to be executed. What are you...!"
In the darkness, a pair of large hands roughly haul the woman up from beside the block. Amid everyone's horrified cries, he rides away with her at breakneck speed.
"Lu Jian Yue, do you want to die?"
"Then, Your Highness, do you think Jian Yue is allowed to die?"
Reader's Guide:
1. A tragic story, extremely tragic, especially heartbreaking. 2. Bad ending. If you want to let off steam or cry your heart out, please add it to your collection, dears. (Blows a kiss)
In a nutshell: The heroine's family plots to murder the hero's mother. When he grows up, he massacres her whole family. The heroine, frail and ill since childhood, was raised deep in the mountains and escapes the calamity. Years later, the two meet, concealing their identities from each other as they fall in love and fight one another.
Theme: Each person cultivates their own path, each person reaps their own consequences.
