Defying Fate: From a Fake Marriage to the Eternal Emperor

Fresh out of university, Lin Tao is chosen by tycoon CEO Su Xiaoxiao to be her “contract husband.” The agreement lasts three years, and each gets what they need. He turns down the senior position at her company and chooses to start at the bottom, unaware that his quiet endurance is drawing him into a fateful vortex spanning three hundred years.

As his rivals’ schemes grow more vicious, Lin Tao stumbles upon a mysterious book in the black market. He devotes himself to its techniques and masters them, all the while keeping them secret from Su Xiaoxiao. Only when she is left on the brink of death after being hunted by her enemies does he save her by risking his own life. That is when the two truly begin living together.

Using his techniques, he works from the shadows to personally destroy every force that threatens her, quietly building an empire of his own. But he has no idea that a cataclysm on Mount Tai is tearing open the fabric of time and space. After a century of natural disasters in the Great Qing, the crown prince and his imperial brothers kidnap the Fourth Prince to sacrifice him on the Road to Heaven. When Lin Tao’s techniques merge with witchcraft inside a black hole, he suddenly realizes the truth: he is Yin Zhen, the Fourth Prince from three hundred years ago, and the previous incarnation of the Yongzheng Emperor.