Drunk on the Purest Breeze

A fleeting glance when she was ten set in motion a lifelong love and a lifetime of entanglements.

Fu Heng was like a star in the sky: sometimes within reach, sometimes distant. He never spoke lightly of love, yet always held her deep in his heart.

Ji Yun, a famous scholar of the Qing Empire, was passionate and fearless in love. He knew true love was rare, and once he found it, he would never let go.

She was born to nobility but lost among the common folk. She was swept away by his tender affection, but when the flowers had fallen, she realized it was all just the moon reflected in water, a flower in a mirror. She couldn't bear to give up a love that had left such a deep mark on her, yet she never expected that a simple, unremarkable life was true happiness.

Buddha says that a hundred or a thousand glances in a past life are what bring two people to pass each other by in this one. In that life, I traveled over mountains and rivers and around pagodas, not to earn a better next life, but simply to meet you along the way.

A companion novel to I Promise You the Next Life, continuing the story with the daughter of Yongzheng and Ruohan.