A clear-headed heroine who falls hard and gets over it even faster x A cold-faced Yama who says one thing but means another
When Qin Siyan transmigrates into the eldest legitimate daughter of a fifth-rank official in the Great Sheng, she is immediately faced with three infuriating problems:
1. Her childhood sweetheart puts an arm around her younger sister's waist and says he wants to break off their engagement.
2. Her stepmother wants to marry her off as a second wife to a widower over fifty.
3. Ye Guzhou, the living Yama whom everyone fears, leads her into a deserted alley. His rough fingers grip her chin, his throat bobs, and the scars beneath his mask are hideous. "How will you repay me for saving your life?"
Everyone says the ghost-faced general Ye Guzhou is a Rakshasa who crawled out of hell, someone who once ate human flesh raw and drank human blood.
Only Qin Siyan knows that he needs two bowls of candied fruit to get through one bowl of medicine. When she falls asleep, he wraps his cloak around her cold feet. And just because she glances a couple of times at another family's young man, the wretch actually asks her for scar-removal ointment.
She is the first ray of light to enter his abyss, yet he snuffs it out with his own hands.
That night, the flames light up the sky. To protect his "white moonlight," he leaves her in the sea of fire.
The young woman looks desolate, yet smiles like a flower. "Ye Guzhou, in life or death, we will never meet again."
Later, the Prince of Jin's manor becomes a river of blood. Someone sees the living Yama clutching a love-knot in his hand. He sits amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood, utterly bereft. "Yanyan, I've finally avenged myself, so why am I not happy at all?"
Reading guide:
1. Both leads are devoted to each other and equally strong. The heroine transmigrated before birth. The faked-death plot happens midway through, followed by the hero's long quest to win her back.
2. The male lead's white moonlight is a misunderstanding. The heroine is the one who truly is his white moonlight.
3. Happy ending. The male lead's mouth is harder than armor, and the heroine's heart is colder than a scalpel.
Theme: Live in the present and cherish the people by your side.
