short series

Embered Youth

share time: 2025-12-24 00:30:25

Su Wan, a restorer at the Palace Museum, takes on the restoration of the Ming Dynasty painting *Youth in Ember*. To her shock, she finds her childhood jade hairpin—an secret she never shared—hidden in the painting. Even more startling: Gu Zhao, the new art appraiser, looks exactly like the white-robed youth holding a brush in the artwork. As restoration progresses, both start having vivid past-life dreams: she was a tailor’s daughter in Suzhou, he a poor scholar heading for the imperial exam. They fell in love but were torn apart by family feuds, and she burned the *Youth in Ember* (which she embroidered) to殉情. When their past memories align, a fake *Youth in Ember* suddenly appears—someone is trying to destroy the real painting to cover up the truth of that year. As Su Wan and Gu Zhao outwit the villain and untangle their past misunderstandings, can this千年 “burning promise” turn into a happy ending in this life?

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