Zhu Qi came out of the Cave of Ten Thousand Ghosts with no memories. The royal family found her and claimed she was the current princess.
Yet in a hundred years, the royal family had produced only one princess. More than ten years ago, she died beneath a bandit's blade while protecting her four sons as she traveled with her husband.
Even if she were still alive, she would be nearly forty by now.
So how could someone in the prime of her youth be an impostor?
Her identity as a princess was fake, and a face that supposedly looked like the princess's was no proof at all.
Besides, the four sons of the late princess were powerful men she couldn't afford to offend. Zhu Qi set off for the imperial capital with the boy she'd picked up along the way, intending to flee.
Before they could even leave the imperial capital, a young elder of an immortal sect surrounded them and smiled at her. "Mother, where are you going? Your elder and younger sons are on their way back. Don't you want to see them?"
Zhu Qi backed away step by step. She started laughing, then burst into tears. Where did I get sons this old?
Every night, the lights shone brightly in the little house in town, and the young elder came and went frequently. Across the square table from him sat a woman who looked even younger than he did. They often talked through the night without sleeping, and the elder always arrived with snacks from the common folk in his hands, brought from all over. Soon, gossip began to spread.
They whispered that the immortal sect had descended into worldly life and that he was keeping a beauty in his chambers.
It wasn't until the young elder produced a rare painting that the neat inscription in small regular script beneath it was revealed: In Loving Memory of My Beloved Mother.
Zhu Qi, brainwashed: See? I'm his mother, a mother whose son is older than she is!
The young elder, halfway brainwashed: ...
Male lead's blurb:
Gu Mingjing awoke in a frontier land with his limbs and features restored to those of a youth. He remembered nothing of his past and was in a wretched state, the lowliest of the low in the frontier.
Then Zhu Qi took him in, saying his fate was strong enough to dispel sin.
Gradually, he began to have feelings for her.
The feelings he had yet to confess finally burst forth after her sons, who were older than he was, showed up. He waited along the route they had to take to leave and earnestly asked, "How about I become your stepfather?"
Unexpectedly, the eldest son glanced at him without changing expression. "Dear father, could you stop lowering yourself like that?"
Young Gu Mingjing: I get to be a father just like that?
Theme: A fulfilled spirit keeps you feeling younger as you grow older
