A lotus flower made of Buddha bone sits between my brows, granting people good fortune and protecting them from disaster. In my previous life, I saved the princess, only for her to carve the lotus from my brow on our wedding day and humiliate me to death. She thought I had caused the death of her childhood sweetheart. After being reborn, I destroyed the lotus with my own hands and refused the imperial marriage decree. The princess was reborn too, but remained obsessed with her childhood sweetheart and even forced me to wager my life against his. I saved the poisoned second princess and exposed the truth: her childhood sweetheart had falsely claimed to be Heaven’s chosen one. The princess ultimately suffered the consequences of her own actions, and her childhood sweetheart was executed by a thousand cuts. I left the past behind and set out toward a new life with the person who had always believed me.
