Unyielding Spring Mountains

Wei Zhen is charming and alluring, born into a prestigious family, and is an untouchable delicate flower in the city of Chang’an.

Her wedding is imminent—she is about to marry the young Crown Prince. The Crown Prince is gentle, elegant, and graceful. Everyone believes this is an excellent marriage.

However, Wei Zhen has a dream—

She realizes that she is merely a character in a storybook. The Crown Prince loves someone else; marrying her serves another purpose. Her existence is merely an obstacle to their love.

In the end, the Crown Prince ascends the throne and marries his true love, while Wei Zhen is cast into the cold palace as an abandoned empress, her life ending in tragic loneliness.

The storybook ends there, but in her dream, everything continues.

Before long, the dynasty is overthrown. A young general leads a rebellion, seizing the imperial city and committing the greatest crime against the empire.

The first thing he does upon entering the palace is kill the emperor and take Wei Zhen’s memorial tablet as his bride.

Upon waking from her dream, Wei Zhen steps out of her room and gazes at the handsome young man who often visits her younger brother to practice martial arts in the courtyard, momentarily lost in thought.

Qi Yan is of noble birth, high-spirited and gallant, the most dazzling presence in all of Chang’an.

If nothing changes, he will follow in the footsteps of his ancestors, spending his life on the battlefield, defending the country.

Until that day, when he visits his friend’s home as usual.

The spring breeze stirs, the bamboo blinds sway, and the crisp sound of jade pendants clinking fills the air.

The young man turns his head and sees a graceful silhouette stepping out from behind the curtain.

Bathed in shifting spring light, the lady is coldly beautiful, rarely one to smile.

But upon seeing him, her lips curve into a soft, radiant smile, stunningly bright.

The seventeen-year-old, unrestrained young general momentarily freezes. He smiles back calmly, yet a faint blush creeps up behind his ears.

In his heart, a gentle spring breeze turns into a wild storm, swaying for her.

From that day on, whether in spring or autumn, he will go against the current to chase after her.

That day, he fell in love.

Qi Yan has always been forthright in his actions. But from that day forward, he was determined to plot and scheme for the cold-hearted lady—who already had a fiancé—to become his own.

[A cold-on-the-outside, warm-on-the-inside stunning beauty × A gallant young general in splendid attire]

1. Sweet romance, 1V1, happy ending, little to no age difference.
2. The story uses the reincarnation trope to introduce a prophetic dream, exploring past and present lives, but is not an actual transmigration novel.
3. The setting is fictional, and societal expectations of female chastity are not overly strict.