Firstly, I wanted to continue the storyline and see what could happen with Donghua Dijun and Bai Fengjiu from Eternal Love. Secondly, the leads are such beautiful people I wanted to watch more of them. So, this was up next for me immediately after watching Eternal Love.

Big thanks to DramaSlot for a thorough post that I referenced to help me with my summary.

Total episodes: 56, about 40 min each (watched it on Viki)

Listen to the OST on Spotify (my fav song is Yuan Zi Shu 缘字书 / 緣字書=book of fate’s word)

Title in Chinese is San Sheng San Shi Zhen Shang Shu 三生三世枕上书:
San = three, sheng = life/lives, san = three again, shi = world, zhen = pillow, shang = on top, shu = book. So three lives, three worlds, book on the pillow. I really don’t understand the pillow reference here, maybe it makes more sense with the novel.

Warning: possible spoilers ahead!

I rated this one a 9/10.

I didn’t mention Cheng Yu in Eternal Love, but she was the Celestial Tribe/Heaven Clan’s 3rd prince Lian Song’s love interest. She’s sassy and independent. The new actress for Cheng Yu in this felt a little too young for Lian Song so it was a bit awkward to me, but I did like her as an actress (and outside of that mismatch).

They did a fun repurposing of the actor who played Zi Lan, the 16th disciple in Eternal Love. Now he becomes his demon twin brother, Yan Chiwu, and briefly notes his good-for-nothing “good” brother as a nod to the other character, lol. I think I like him as a demon better? At least he got to be more interesting.

This one made it on 11 of my lists:

1. Fav Shows
2. Kissworthy
3. Doting/Smitten
4. Keep Your Eyes Peeled
5. Want to Rewatch
6. Magic
7. Gimme More (Dilraba Dilmurat, Huang Jun Jie)
8. Lookalikes (Dilraba)
9. Pretty Boys (Gao Wei Guang)
10. Gorgeous (Dilraba, Wang Yi Fei)
11. Controversies (Huang Jun Jie)

Tropes/themes in this show:

• jealous female love rival who thinks she deserves the male lead
• main leads who need to stay away from and/or be mean to each other to protect each other
• side character who also falls in love with main lead, but can never be with them and ends up accepting it
• main lead who sacrifices him/herself to save the other
• main lead is key to the destruction of the world (or preventing it)
• someone schemes to catch main lead in compromising situation

Show Summary:

A very long time ago, Donghua Dijun battled demon king Miao Luo and defeated her, sealing her. He is a legendary figure revered by pretty much everybody and became the emperor of the Heaven Clan. 30,000 years later, Bai Fengjiu of Qing Qiu kingdom (where the nine-tailed foxes live), wanders to Mount Qinyao and gets lost. She trespasses on an area the demons run, near where Miao Luo is sealed. Donghua senses something amiss and goes to check it out, killing a beast that was chasing Fengjiu. Not sure if he’s even aware she was there. She decides she has to repay him for saving her life. This is similar to Eternal Love but the situation for where she is rescued is different. She goes and begs Si Ming up in Heaven Clan to get her into Donghua’s palace so she can be a maid. Si Ming is in charge of mortals’ fates and he is friendly with Donghua.

Donghua has been trying out his cooking skills and gets Si Ming to try out a dish he made, which nearly kills him LOL. Fengjiu has entered the palace as a maid and encounters princess Zhi He, Donghua’s foster cousin. The princess is bratty and in love with Donghua. She bullies Fengjiu and makes her do chores. A special butterfly accidentally gets triggered and creates a windstorm. Fengjiu helps the injured butterfly, but Zhi He then throws it in a pond.

Donghua hears about General Meng Hao being trapped at Baishui mountain. He’s stuck there because he’s too in love with a demon queen that the demon lord Chi had used as bait to lure him there. Donghua doesn’t understand this love thing. Oh but he will I’m sure! The general is a dragon in his original form and he chooses to stay trapped.

Demon lord of the red demon clan, Xu Yang, wants to marry his sister Ji Heng off to Donghua. Demon lord of the green demon clan, Yan Chiwu is in love with her and doesn’t want that to happen.

Fengjiu ends up in the kitchen at the palace and makes delicious food. She’s an excellent cook. She’s supposed to deliver desserts to Donghua but drops them, so she replaces them with ones she made. Everybody likes her desserts but Zhi He gets credit for them. Later, Fengjiu is frying fish and Donghua smells it and comes to see. He has her continue to work in the kitchen.

Ji Heng doesn’t want to marry Donghua because she’s in love with her personal bodyguard, Min Su. Yan Chiwu challenges Donghua to a duel lol but the man doesn’t have time for him. Demon lord Nie Chuyin then suggests Chiwu steal a soul locking jade to get Donghua’s attention and force him to duel.

Fengjiu hears about the battle and rushes to go help. The jade has morphed into some evil lotus. Chuyin has an obsession with furs so he trades half his cultivation for some of Fengjiu’s tails. She can’t maintain human form and reverts to a fox. She’s able to help out a little but burns herself in the process lol. While helping bandage her, Donghua is fond of her and takes her back with him as a pet fox.

Min Su gets sent to a dangerous battle because Xu Yang wants him to stay away from his sister until she’s married to Donghua. Ji Heng goes and finds her love anyway. They get saved by Meng Hao, the general, in his dragon form. He is actually Ji Heng’s father, that must be why he willing stayed trapped there. Donghua senses Meng Hao needs help and goes, but the man is already dying. He asks Donghua to cure Ji Heng’s cold toxin disease.

Ji Heng tells Donghua about her love for Min Su. Donghua strikes an agreement with Xu Yang to let Min Su go. Ji Heng is sent to Donghua’s palace and Fengjiu gets jealous when she finds out Ji Heng is going to marry Donghua. She and Donghua have been bonding but he probably just takes her as an adorable pet. She’s been in fox form the whole time.

Zhe Yan, the phoenix immortal, is a close family friend of the foxes. He, Si Ming, and Si Ming’s girlfriend Cheng Yu (a good friend of Fengjiu’s) go beat up Nie Chuyin to get her tails back. Fengjiu goes home to Qing Qiu and regains her human form. She’s sad and ashamed because she got in trouble at the palace and was being punished, so she left.

Chuyin visits Miao Luo. He wants to help her break her seal and become the new demon lord to replace Xu Yang. She tells him to find the soul locking jade.

Princess Zhi He of course is also jealous that Ji Heng is going to marry her cousin. She replaces herself as the bride only to get taken by Chiwu thinking it was Ji Heng lol. She gets in trouble and gets exiled. Ji Heng and Min Su had already escaped as part of a plan/agreement with Donghua. They are captured by Xu Yang and Min Su reveals he’s actually a woman and kills herself to get Xu Yang to let Ji Heng go. Ji Heng is shocked. She jumps off a cliff with Min Su’s body and falls into the mortal realm. She ends up getting saved by Chuyin but loses all her memory.

Donghua is weak from the battle in the lotus, helping suppress Ji Heng’s poison, and then repairing Miao Luo’s seal. Lian Song, the third prince of Heaven Clan, suggests casting half of Donghua’s shadow away as a protective mechanism.

To restore his powers faster, Donghua decides to undergo trials in the mortal realm. He gets born as crown prince Song Xuanren of Chengyu kingdom. Fengjiu is told about this and wants to go check on him even though it could backfire on her. Immortals aren’t supposed to visit the mortal world and interfere with their lives. She goes anyway, helps him dressed as a soldier in a battle, and can’t be found afterwards. Xuanren sends his trusted general Ye Qingti to find the soldier but “he” has disappeared.

Chuyin is in the mortal realm convincing Chong’an’s (a foreign country) emperor to try to get the Lingbi stone, which is a legendary rock that helped Xuanren’s grandfather win a war. He uses Ji Heng as a pawn. She is called Chu Wan now and becomes the adopted daughter of Chong’an emperor. She is sent off to be married to Xuanren as part of peace talks. Chuyin makes something up to convince Chu Wan that she needs to find out where the stone is to help them.

Fengjiu’s interference in the battle caused Xuanren to not meet the woman he was supposed to fall in love with. Si Ming is upset with her and sends her back to get the two to meet. She poses as a soldier again and warns Qingti of an attack. She’s lauded as a hero and becomes one of Xuanren’s guards. She pretends she’s looking for her relative to find the woman that Xuanren was supposed to fall in love with. One night, she gets startled, falls in the water with Xuanren, and he sees her as a woman briefly when her hair comes undone. She escapes so he won’t know it was her. He sends people to find this mysterious women he fell in love with at first sight.

Fengjiu finally learns that the lady she was looking for ended up dying. So now there is nobody for Donghua’s love trial, which he needs to undergo to regain his cultivation. Si Ming asks Fengjiu to be Xuanren’s lover (who must break his heart), so he can complete his love trial. So, she reveals she was the woman in the water to Xuanren and he happily makes her an imperial lady. She gets maids and she picks a girl called Mu Yun, who she thinks is the butterfly that got killed by princess Zhi He.

Chu Wan has been searching the palace for the stone with no luck. She gets close to Xuanren so she can get in his bedroom as the final place to search. Fengjiu gets jealous. Later, she makes treats and has Qingti try them since he came by. Xuanren sees her feeding him since his hands were dirty and now he gets jealous. Qingti does have a crush on Fengjiu but I don’t think anyone knows. At various points, there are misunderstandings where Xuanren thinks she is talking about someone else when she’s really thinking about Donghua, who is really him… so he’s jealous with himself a lot lol.

Fengjiu is assigned dessert-making for a banquet and the taste tester dies of poison. She gets in trouble and is thrown in prison with her maid Mu Yun. Xuanren doesn’t believe it was her and has Qingti investigate. They try to get her to reveal her background because that mystery is partly why they can’t prove her innocence. She won’t tell though. Eventually Qingti figures out it was the plate that was poisoned and not her desserts, so Fengjiu is set free.

Xuanren takes Fengjiu to see the Lingbi stone, which seems to be the soul locking jade. It lights up when he touches, then lights up when she touches. Perhaps because it recognizes them both? Xuanren brought her to the tomb where the stone is because he wants help improving the trap mechanisms.

Chu Wan and her assistant Ling Xiang get close to finding the stone. Ling Xiang attempts to enter the tomb and triggered some traps. She gets caught, kills herself. Chu Wan is blamed for involvement and imprisoned. She gets rescued by Yan Chiwu, but she still doesn’t remember anything so she doesn’t know who he is.

Qingti takes Fengjiu to watch the sunset to brighten her mood. He gives her a bracelet and promises to help her if she ever wanted to leave the palace. Xuanren notices the bracelet and suspects she’s hiding something. He needs to choose an empress and makes it her. Qingti is super sad and writes her a love letter. On the wedding day, Fengjiu disappears with Qingti and Xuanren finds the letter.

Xuanren has people chase them down and eventually brings them back. They are imprisoned but Xuanren doesn’t want to kill them. Xuanren’s older brother Xuanying brings people to attack. He’s been working with Nie Chuyin this whole time trying to find the stone. Xuanren takes Fengjiu with him to the tomb where Xuanying is. A massive fight ensues, Fengjiu gets stabbed, Qingti shows up to help. Xuanren activates a self-destruction mechanism in the tomb and Qingti locks himself in the tomb with the bad guys to ensure they can’t escape. Xuanren and Fengjiu escape and he wants to start over, but she feels a great debt to Qingti now. She tells Xuanren she loves Qingti and jumps off a cliff.

Fengjiu returns to the immortal realm and asks her friend Xie Guchou, lord of the netherworld, to help her revive Ye Qingti. She can do so if she can get a magical fruit that would enable him to become immortal. Meanwhile, Guchou keeps his body in a suspended state. Xuanren dies of heartbreak and Donghua returns to his immortal body. This is also similar to the storyline in Eternal Love, Donghua’s mortal identity falls in love with Fengjiu and she has to break his heart and he dies young. He can’t remember what happened but there’s a tear in his eye.

Chiwu helps Chu Wan regain her memory and be Ji Heng again. She leaves to enter Fanyin valley, a place that Donghua said would be good to help her with her cold toxin.

An immortal Cang Yi is interested in Fengjiu and comes to ask for marriage. Fengjiu gets drunk with her buddy Cheng Yu and decides to agree. She claims to be over Donghua but really she’s not. When she sobers up, she tries to undo her mistake and challenges Cang Yi to a duel lol. Her dad and Zhe Yan the family friend show up to stop them. Ever the mediator, Zhe Yan suggests they cancel the agreement and Cang Yi finally agrees even though he likes her. She’s stubborn but he says he’ll wait for her to change her mind.

Bai Qian, Fengjiu’s aunt is about to get married (this is the main couple from Eternal Love) and Donghua comes as part of the entourage to pick her up from Qing Qiu so he can look for his fox pet that he lost. He pays no attention to Fengjiu in human form, not recognizing her. She goes to Heaven Clan to attend the wedding. Her family sets up some blind dates while she’s up there. She acts very undesirably and scares them off lol. Donghua happens to witness this behavior, is amused, and invites her to drink with him.

Later he encounters her again when she saves some people from a beast attack. Then, she ran away from a mob of suitors into an indoor bath, so she took a dip. He came in and she had nothing on lol. He handed her her clothes and she sheepishly crawled away. She realized she left behind some things, which Donghua took with him. She goes to ask for it back thinking he’s alone but behind her were a bunch of other immortals there for a meeting haha.

Princess Zhi He begs to return to Heaven Clan and continues to be her rude self. She tries to mess with Fengjiu. Fengjiu turns into a handkerchief to hide from Donghua at one point, he knows it’s her and picks her up, then messes with her. He then goes to fight Chiwu for the duel that I forgot all about. During the fight, she (as the handkerchief) and Chiwu both fall into an opening into Fanyin valley and land on the 2nd prince of the Biyi bird clan, Xiangli Meng.

This valley can only be entered and exited on rare occasions every 60 years so they’re stuck there for awhile. It’s always winter there. (There’s a story to that.) The prince was trying to sneak out and to cover that up, he makes up a story that gets them out of trouble too. So they pose as students interested in the Biyi tribe’s culture and enroll in their school. Chiwu sees a lady who looks like Ji Heng there but she doesn’t acknowledge him. She’s a music teacher there.

Fengjiu hears about a competition to win the fruit she needs to revive Qingti, so she goes from being a nonchalant student to an eager one so she can enter the competition. A substitute teacher is supposed to come teach a course that Donghua normally would do a guest lecture on and the students want to play a trick on him. Instead, Donghua actually shows up and the normal teacher falls into the trap.

Fengjiu is mad at Donghua for not coming for so long, he turns into a handkerchief to let her have revenge on him. But then he transports himself back to Heaven Clan to play Go with Lian Song (3rd prince). She confronts Donghua when she finds out and gives him back the handkerchief. She finds out Ji Heng is in the valley and assumes Donghua is there for her rival and not her.

Fengjiu and Ji Heng end up having to compete in tea-making and Ji Heng wins. Ji Heng is interested in Donghua now, probably because Min Su was a dead end.

Since she couldn’t get into the competition, Fengjiu tries to steal the fruit. She learns the serpents guarding it leave briefly during the full moon so she gets Chiwu to help her dig a tunnel. But Donghua messes with it and they get lost in different directions. She ends up seeing a woman seducing Donghua. It turns out to be Miao Luo’s spirit. Fengjiu fights the spirit with Donghua (they make some moooooves together) and they defeat her but then they’re stuck there because a barricade was triggered. Donghua gets her to bandage his arm, he acts all fussy to get attention from her lol. He lays in her lap and grabs her hand too. What a baby. They end up falling asleep next to each other. He’s intrigued by her since everybody else in the universe wants his protection, but she’s the only who wants to protect him.

Donghua and Chiwu trade rooms so they get to be in the courtyards with the girls they like. Ji Heng is not happy haha. Donghua gets Fengjiu into the competition and becomes her trainer. He trains her pretty hard and even uses it to vent his jealousy. At one point when she falls and he catches her, they end up kissing but she bit his lip so it wasn’t exactly romantic.

Oh yeah, Meng has a sister, princess Jie Lu, who comes in from time to time.

Bahaha Meng had a cricket that died and he’s devastated. He got it from a Qing Qiu princess when he was exploring once. That was Fengjiu! She was taking A’Li (her nephew) out back when she was recovering from her embarrassment up at Donghua’s. Meng has been in love with this lady ever since then even though never saw her face because she had a veil on.

The first round of the competition is music and Ji Heng plays a tune for the student to harmonize with. She purposely makes a difficult one for Fengjiu but Fengjiu still passes. On the next round, ice beams, Fengjiu and Chiwu are the last ones standing. Ji Heng secretly uses magic to control Chiwu and make him aggressive. Donghua notices and knocks her out, Fengjiu then wins. But all she notices is Donghua carrying Ji Heng away.

Donghua forces evil power out of Ji Heng and she begs him to give her the fruit. He agrees because he never intended to give it to Fengjiu. Why? Fengjiu is so let down by this. She decides she needs to go steal the fruit and she gets trapped in A’Lanruo’s dream. A’Lanruo was a princess of the tribe and her lover created the dream to keep her alive, or something like that. Fengjiu could get stuck in there and never come out, so Donghua goes to enter the dream with her and bring her back.

When he arrives they are in some sort of waiting area lol, not the dream itself (yet?). Fengjiu thinks she’s dreaming about Donghua again so she pulls him down for a kiss. When he gets over the initial surprise, he then pulls her in for a deeper kiss and they roll around on the bed hahaha. That doesn’t look comfortable at all. When Donghua tells her it’s not a dream, she’s confused. She’s lost some of her recent memories so she’s not mad at him or jealous. He tells her they already got married to get her to let her guard down and trust him more. She’s weak and needs to recover, he works some magic on her.

Then they enter the dream, where a bunch of maids are calling her A’Lanruo now. She has to orient herself and get answers out of the maids. Eventually she learns she grew up with the serpents and Shen Ye as a boy would come to visit her, then eventually saved her from her situation. He’s been in love with her all this time. Ok so the characters for his name are 沉晔, which should translate to Chen Ye, but I swear the pronunciation in the show is Shen Ye and that’s how it’s subtitled too, so that’s what I’m using. And A’Lanruo 阿兰若 sounds like A’Lanre in the show but the character is ruo and that’s what the subtitles used so I’m going with that. That one I believe could be an accent thing of why it sounds a little off, or when you say it fast it can easily be heard otherwise.

Donghua enters the dream and takes over Xi Ze, who is A’Lanruo’s husband. I think the real Lord Xi Ze is an older man probably in his 40’s. He is a doctor, so it’s a good cover for him to enter the palace to treat A’Lanruo’s sister, princess Ju Nuo. Donghua finds out Ju Nuo is pregnant and might be hosting Fengjiu’s primordial spirit. I guess she’s the incubator to help Fengjiu’s spirit recover?

Su Moye, A’Lanruo’s master, gets sent into the dream by Lian Song because he’s worried. Moye’s mom was the empress snake so he’s able to enter the dream. He’s been investigating A’Lanruo’s death and he knows a bit about the history. He tells Fengjiu that the dream was created as a chance to revive A’Lanruo. They need to find out how she died as a method to complete the dream and get out.

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When Moye meets Xi Ze, he suspects it’s Donghua. Originally, A’Lanruo was married to Xi Ze but they never lived together. So a marriage in name only. Shen Ye is Xi Ze’s disciple and took over his position. He looks just like Donghua. A’Lanruo was really into snakes (having grown up with them) but Fengjiu is not, so she plots to get an excuse for A’Lanruo’s pet snake Qing to stay away from her. Moye helps with the plot that involves Chang Di, another princess who likes to bully A’Lanruo along with Ju Nuo. Donghua follows and sees, then approaches Fengjiu and she hands him a mask without looking, thinking he’s Moye. There’s some event/holiday/tradition they’re following. They go look at cool glowing flowers and she talks about the man she loves but cannot remember.

Fengjiu gets in trouble for letting the snake loose and is imprisoned. There’s a fire and Shen Ye rushes to save her. She talks to Moye about A’Lanruo’s life and her own. Donghua listens in and takes her back to her room when she falls asleep. She’s surprised to see him when she wakes up, thinking he is Xi Ze of course. Donghua then goes to meet with Moye and reveal his identity. They discuss how to get out of the dream safely.

There’s a banquet to enjoy the stars and Chang Di harasses Fengjiu for not knowing where Xi Ze is. He turns up, saying he went to the mountains to get herbs for her. He makes a big show of his concern for her, which the princesses are not happy with haha. Shen Ye doesn’t pay much attention to his fiancée Ju Nuo and stares at Fengjiu instead. He seems to sense that Fengjiu isn’t A’Lanruo. I guess he’s been trapped in the dream this whole time searching for her?

The princesses set up a trap to lure Moye to A’Lanruo’s room to frame them for being together. Instead they’re tricked to find Donghua with her haha. They even get the king to witness their trickery. Donghua carries her off to his room. Then Moye shows up to seal the deal by telling the king about the fake letter. YAS, win.

The princesses get punished (gently) but then Ju Nuo gets in trouble for an affair with her teacher. Oh the irony! She is set to be beheaded and Chang Di gets exiled for breaking a lamp. My my. Moye believes Ju Nuo can’t die because that’s not close enough to the real timeline and then they may not figure out how A’Lanruo died and get out of the dream.

At the execution, Fengjiu has to step up and stop it. She has to bleed on a sword as part of it and that triggers an alert for Miao Luo. She had some red Qi she hid in a fetus when she was defeated by Donghua and it turns out that baby was Fengjiu. That explains the red mark on her forehead. Miao Luo needs that blood back to break free of her seal. Donghua fights her, then Fengjiu gets sucked back into her real body.

Now she recovers her primordial spirit in her own body and she remembers Donghua. He’s fighting Miao Luo in flashes of blue and red. They fly off to who knows where and she goes looking for him, following a trail of blood until she reaches a cave. Eventually she finds him in there and he rushes her, kissing her until they back into a stone wall. Lol he acts like a little baby with her.

Now he gets a chance to explain he didn’t want her to have the fruit because he thought she was just going to make treats for Chiwu and he was jealous, ai. They rest but have to go back and continue pretending to be A’Lanruo and Xi Ze. A’Lanruo’s body is gone now that Fengjiu is back and Donghua figures there’s some sort of connection between the two. I mean come on, they look identical! He’ll need to create a magical mirror to investigate.

Shen Ye moves in to A’Lanruo’s place. To save him from punishment (because he’s Ju Nuo’s fiancé?), A’Lanruo had claimed she needed him to work for her. I guess in the original timeline, he got punished because he defended Ju Nuo. He has lots of memories at A’Lanruo’s. He’s still trying to figure out how to save his love.

Moye learns about Fengjiu returning and now A’Lanruo’s body disappearing. He says originally Shen Ye was in a bad mood upon moving in so A’Lanruo would write letters to him to help with his mood. So now Fengjiu needs to send him letters too, under the guise of or pen name of Wen Tian, a teacher. A’Lanruo had thought Shen Ye might not read the letters if he knew they were from her. Shen Ye has the original letters and compares them, they’re basically identical but he suspects she’s not A’Lanruo. He confronts her, gets mad, drinks.

Donghua shows up to take Fengjiu on a nice date. He makes butterflies and flowers float everywhere, then takes her out to town for a holiday. He tells her his intention to marry her and make her his empress. (The Dijun 帝君part of his name is a title essentially meaning emperor. It’s a less used way of calling one an emperor and a rather respectable one.) They share a nice kiss.

Miao Luo is lurking and Donghua secretly goes to fight her. Fengjiu is unhappy she was abandoned, not knowing what’s going on. Back at her place, Shen Ye is drunk and unhappy too. What a mess.

Donghua gets Moye to help him with the mirror. It’s an arduous task. He spends time with Fengjiu and she enjoys the attention.

Moye tells Fengjiu more about A’Lanruo and Shen Ye. They eventually finally confessed their feelings to each other and Moye left after that. Fengjiu suspects because he had feelings for A’Lanruo too. Two years after that, the bird emperor died, was succeeded by his son, then the son died. A’Lanruo would have been next in line but Ju Nuo took over instead. I guess A’Lanruo was blamed for supposedly poisoning the emperor and hanged herself.

Meanwhile in the real world, Jie Lu the bird princess had been trying to get the story of A’Lanruo from her mother the current empress. A’Lanruo was her sister and they loved the same man (Shen Ye). A’Lanruo’s dream was created by him because of his obsession. The current empress turns out to be Ju Nuo, the princess we meet in the dream.

Fengjiu finally reveals to Shen Ye she’s not A’Lanruo and gets him to confess he loved A’Lanruo. She tells him he shouldn’t have hidden his feelings. Donghua sees Shen Ye hugging Fengjiu and gets jealous and leaves. She sees him, runs after him, but can’t find him and it starts raining. He finally returns all wet after walking around for hours and takes a bath. He’s all jealous and pulls her into the bath as they talk it out, then she gives him a peck on the cheek. They happily get cozy and end up consummating their relationship. Does it count in dreamland? Lol.

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Shen Ye’s been trying to gather A’Lanruo’s primordial spirit with a soul gathering lamp. It gets broken when Miao Luo comes to attack. The spirit enters Fengjiu’s body and she can see/feel A’Lanruo’s memories. A’Lanruo had been so crestfallen when Shen Ye returned to the palace, thinking he abandoned her. Donghua and Moye finish the mirror and see A’Lanruo’s past too.

The empress arranged the war so the son could get killed in battle and her daughter Ju Nuo could take over. A’Lanruo was thrown in prison and saved by Xi Ze. She learns about her brother’s danger and goes to replace him. She sacrificed herself to kill all the enemy soldiers in a fiery blaze. In his grief, Shen Ye used all his powers to cut out 3 of the seasons, leaving only bitter winter as a reminder to everyone of A’Lanruo’s death.

Shen Ye is connected to Donghua; he’s Donghua’s shadow’s reincarnation. Remember back when Donghua sent his shadow off as a protective mechanism when he was weak? That became Shen Ye. Fengjiu had her shadow cast too, to go follow his shadow and repay his kindness, and that’s how A’Lanruo came to be. Her soul can’t be recovered, it’s now back with Fengjiu, so they need Shen Ye to give up his obsession. He kills himself since he can’t bring A’Lanruo back and re-enters Donghua. Miao Luo shows up and extracts the red Qi blood from Fengjiu. Now they exit the dream.

Miao Luo is getting close to breaking the seal and needs Nie Chuyin to get a blood tear that the demon clans protect. He will need to kill the leader Xu Yang (the guy who tried to marry Ji Heng off to Donghua) to get it. A bunch of the bird clan is going to stay in the valley to defend it and fight Miao Luo. It’s basically a death mission. They send off little Jie Lu princess because their clan needs a leader to survive.

Fengjiu is able to get the fruit to Qingti’s body in the netherworld but it will take time for him to awaken and she’ll give half her cultivation when the time comes to revive him. She now needs to make a sword for a ceremony for her to take over as queen of Qing Qiu. Her aunt Bai Qian was the monarch, but now that she married into the Heaven Clan, Qing Qiu needs a new monarch.

At the ceremony, Fengjiu is able to get through the trial, but then Chuyin shows up to challenge her to a duel. He beats her and wants to get a promise from Qing Qiu, but then he’s told he would also need to defeat her husband. Nobody has a clue who that is, lol. Even her family doesn’t know about her relationship. And then the big reveal, Donghua steps up as her husband LOL. He easily defeats Chuyin.

Donghua goes to Qing Qiu to talk marriage with Fengjiu’s parents. He promises to give her freedom to make her own decisions. He wants to hold the ceremony at his personal secret island thing, which nobody is able to access. They have sweet moments together, he takes her there and they talk about what they’re going to build in the future.

Donghua gets called away for duty and doesn’t make it to his wedding banquet. He needs to go help Xu Yang. Ji Heng meets with him too and wants him to stop his marriage. He helps absorb all of her toxin into his body and sends her off.

Fengjiu hears that Donghua was seen with Ji Heng and when she learns it’s true she’s super depressed, thinking he left her. She finds out she is pregnant and decides to leave Qing Qiu. She transfers her cultivation to Qingti as she intended and goes to live in the mortal realm with her child. She only returns to the Heaven Clan when it’s time for a ceremony for Qingti to get assigned a position now that he’s an immortal.

Qingti is appointed as the successor to Donghua’s palace, which surprises people. They expect Donghua Dijun to live forever and be forever powerful, after all. Donghua wants to meet Fengjiu one last time. She’s still hurt and thinks he left her for Ji Heng. He gives her a ring but she rejects it and he’s heartbroken but still loves her deeply.

Chiwu works with Donghua and others to try to seal Miao Luo into the valley since the crack is opening after 60 years. But they don’t quite get her in and Dong Hua has an epic battle with her.

Fengjiu smells something fishy and finally gets Donghua’s guard to tell her the truth. She learns of all the things Donghua’s been doing to save the world this whole time and that the ring was made of half of his heart. Now Fengjiu has to go see Donghua. He’s in the midst of fighting Miao Luo and has sealed them so nobody else can enter.

Fengjiu finds out she can actually enter because she’s wearing the ring made of Donghua’s heart. She goes to fight with him. They discover that Fengjiu’s blood works against Miao Luo so she smears the swords with them and Miao Luo is destroyed. They are both too weak to do anything else and they lay there. Their blood pools eventually touch and it cleanses all the dark energy.

Chiwu has been wooing Ji Heng this whole time and she finally realizes his importance to her and accepts him. Jie Lu princess’s clan is mostly demolished but the survivors get refuge in Qing Qiu. Who is there to be the monarch in place of Fengjiu now?

Donghua nurses an inured and unconscious Fengjiu when a white-haired child shows up. He runs to her calling “mommy” and Donghua stops him to ask him who he is. Ok, he’s got hair like you (and nobody else does) and he’s yelling “mommy” to your wife, who do you think he is?! Lol. Also why doesn’t the kid think he’s the father when he sees hair like his? Donghua finally learns he has a son and he’s shocked (I think that’s the only time in his entire life… he seems to take everything else in stride). Fengjiu eventually wakes up from her injuries and yay, happy family.

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