Landscape designer Ming Zhao drops dead from stress the night before a project deadline.
The good news: She no longer has to turn in the project.
The bad news: She transmigrates into another world, still stuck working for a client. If she can't finish the designs, her vicious client will have her beheaded.
The even worse news: The gardens are haunted. Eight people have died in half a month, each meeting a gruesome end.
On her first day after transmigrating, a female ghost smashes her with a mallet. "...I'm done."
Her subordinate, entirely unsympathetic, says, "No, you can't. This is the Third Prince's garden. If you quit, your whole clan will be executed."
According to rumors, Third Prince Jiang Shuo is extravagant and debauched, oppresses the common people, is domineering and tyrannical, and does whatever he pleases. He's practically the textbook example of an evil feudal noble. Not a single good word can be said about him.
With a half-finished draft in hand, Ming Zhao steels herself to meet her client. In three sentences, she manages to make the Third Prince howl with rage, and he orders her dragged out to be beheaded.
But moments later, a fire breaks out in the gardens, and the tyrannical Third Prince trembles in the flames. "Waaah, I can't do this! I don't know how! You uncouth commoner, don't leave me behind!"
Ming Zhao: ?
According to rumors, Third Prince Jiang Shuo has reached adulthood, yet has never once discussed marriage.
He has a white moonlight, who died ten years ago in a major case involving a rebellion.
One moonless, windy night, Ming Zhao, her memories restored, stands before him and speaks a secret code with no apparent connection: "To get rich, build roads first."
Jiang Shuo weeps with joy. "...Have fewer children and plant more trees?"
Ming Zhao gives him a wicked smile. "So, can your white moonlight turn in the project two days late?"
A laid-back, goofy, and resourceful garden designer * a tyrannical (crossed out) delicate, kindhearted, lovestruck prince
Reader's Guide:
1. One-on-one romance. Strong female lead, weaker male lead. Gender-bender, no reversal. Don't read if that's not your thing.
2. The female lead is genuinely goofy and full of snark, not a typical powerhouse heroine. The male lead is very weak, very timid, and cries easily, but he's kind at heart and smart. He isn't truly tyrannical.
3. The white moonlight has amnesia. The male lead is pure in both body and heart.
Theme: Evil cannot prevail over good.
