Also known as: Wildfire Never Dies, Spring Flows On - screenshots taken
Identity reveal | Resilient heroine full of vitality | Blurb to be revised
In the fifth year of Taihe, on the eve of the new year, Princess Huihe, who was about to be sent away for a political marriage, died in a fire at Jingshan Hall.
At the end of an alley, Yun Xuan listened to the people lamenting the fate of this orphan-born princess, who had been brought into the palace by the Imperial Preceptor because her birth chart matched a prophecy and had been granted an honorific title. They said she was unlucky and too short-lived to enjoy a life of wealth and privilege.
She rolled her eyes in secret. If you could have this kind of good fortune, would you want it?
She had had enough of enduring hardship in the palace Taoist temple while warding off calamities for the emperor. And now the new emperor had lost a war and wanted to send her away for a political marriage!
Not one of them was any good!
Yun Xuan took one last look at the bustling main street and left the city with the merchant caravan without a backward glance.
She returned to her old trade, and the world gained a Yun the Taoist Nun, whose whereabouts were always uncertain.
But... Yun Xuan narrowed her eyes and looked at the handsome, refined figure outside the bookshop.
Oh, no. How could she run into this walking disaster... this God of Wealth so far from Luojing?
She hunched her shoulders and turned to slip away.
The more Song Jue looked at the oddly behaving young woman in the distance, the more familiar she seemed. Almost as if possessed, he followed her. At the street corner, the woman glanced back and met his eyes, then bolted.
It was that little swindler!
"Well, well. I've finally caught you," Song Jue said through gritted teeth beside her.
The instant Yun Xuan was caught, she thought, I'm done for. But the next moment, she heard a hoarse voice, strained with urgency: "Five gold pieces for an hour."
Yun Xuan stared back in shock. The refined young gentleman who had once been so cold was now staring at her intently, his eyes full of an obstinacy she couldn't understand.
Song Jue was born into a prestigious family, and his life had always gone smoothly. That is, until he was seventeen, when a little girl in Luojing thoroughly deceived him in love. He swore to himself that if he ever caught her, he would hand her over to the authorities and have her punished.
But now that he had actually run into her, he met the little swindler's bright, jewel-like eyes, and an inexplicable uneasiness stirred in his heart. Maybe she hadn't deceived him after all. They had met so many times; perhaps there had been a misunderstanding...
He cleared his throat. With a hint of stubbornness he didn't even notice, he changed his tune: "Ten gold pieces. Do you still read fortunes?"
[Quick-witted, stubborn, decisive young Taoist nun x Pretentious but truly tenderhearted scion of a prestigious family]
One-on-one, both devoted to each other, happy ending
The male lead unconsciously persuades himself to fall in love. He wasn't actually deceived in love.
The female lead learned her skills, and strictly speaking, only swindled the male lead, for a reason.
Entirely fictional setting
Theme: Stand on your own and do good every day
