Li Ming has spent her life enduring an abusive home, a mother trapped in a coma, and a future that never truly felt like hers. She only wanted one thing: a chance to live differently.But when strange visions begin to pull her toward a world that should not exist, she realizes this is not escape.It is fate.Thrown into an ancient empire where her name already holds meaning, Li Ming finds herself drawn to Chen Li, a man feared, distant, and impossible to understand. A connection forms where it shouldn’t, one that neither of them can control.Now caught between two lives and two worlds, Li Ming must face a truth she cannot avoid.Fate does not give without taking.And the closer she gets to the life she desires, the more it demands in return.