Lianyi has never understood why she is so different from her twin sister.While her sister is loved and admired, Lianyi has always been treated as the unlucky one—the girl everyone wishes had been born differently. All she wants is to find out why she is the way she is and avoid one thing above all else: being chosen as the Fox King’s bride.Then the Fox King chooses her.Cangming is everything Lianyi expected him to be—powerful, feared, and impossible to escape. What she never expected was to fall in love with him.But the more time Lianyi spends by his side, the more she realizes that there are things about her past she doesn't understand.And Cangming seems to recognize something in her that she cannot see in herself.As their feelings deepen and an ancient secret slowly comes to light, Lianyi is forced to question everything she has ever believed about herself—and whether the love growing between them belongs to this lifetime at all.Because sometimes, the greatest mystery isn't who you were before.It's who you choose to become now.

One night, Zhao Mei lost everything... her relationship, her father, and nearly her life. all before sunrise. Framed for a betrayal she didn't commit, thrown away by the man she loved, and thrown into the sea by the people who feared what she knew, she should have died.She didn't.Five years later, she returns to the city that tried to kill her, masked, renamed, and carrying a secret that could destroy them all. She has one goal: keep her daughter alive. That's it.It would have been enough.If he hadn't walked back into her life drunk, dangerous, and looking at her like something he couldn't name."Ahh... who...""I should be asking you that."She went still.She knew that voice.Xu Muchen.Something was wrong with him."W-what are you doing?"*Her voice came out smaller than she wanted it to.His hand found her waist. One pull, and the distance between them closed to nothing.His mouth was close to her ear. She could feel the heat coming off him."Shhh." His exhale was rough, uneven."You smell like her."He's looking for a ghost.He just doesn't know he already found her.She survived him once.The question is — can she do it again?