Heavenly Owl and Qilin: Shocking Ling Yun

He is the Azure Jade Qilin star deity, banished to the mortal realm. When he was three, his scoundrel father, a princess's consort, had an affair with his wet nurse and then cast her aside. To vent her grudge, the wet nurse cruelly strangled him with a handkerchief...

But he survives against all odds and goes on to rise through sheer ability to become the chief guard of the Ministry of Justice. A willful commandery princess falls for him at first sight, while a peerlessly beautiful woman devotes herself to him... His life soars ever upward, straight to its peak.

Yet, as the saying goes, "When the moon is full, it wanes; when the water is full, it spills over." Just as everything is going his way, he suffers one devastating reversal after another: he is framed, elopes, is ambushed, is declared dead, becomes the subject of scandal, is granted an arranged marriage, is beaten with a staff, has his identity and fiancee claimed by another, commits murder and escapes from prison, and is sentenced to death by the emperor...

This is a historical romance and wuxia novel. The beginning is lighthearted and funny, but the later chapters are heartbreakingly intense. Follow the flawed yet beautiful male lead through his obsessive, torturous romances and turbulent, legendary life. The loves and hates may be familiar, but the reading experience will be anything but.