On the day Ran Ling returned to the capital in triumph, his long-lost first love was brought back to him.
She had once cast aside reputation and status to elope with him, and he had once taken a sword for her.
Everyone said the star-crossed lovers of their youth would finally get the happy ending they had been denied.
But I wasn’t worried, because my mother had transmigrated into this novel—and I was a devoted mama’s girl.
It didn’t matter what anyone schemed against me; I was the hollow rose my mother had raised.