short series

Waiting for the Crane’s Call on the Cold Branch

share time: 2026-02-25 12:35:36

Su Wan, the neglected concubine daughter of the prime minister, is forced into a "widow’s marriage" to Prince Jin—who’s rumored to have died in battle—and sent to Cold Mountain Temple to keep vigil. She rescues a cold, graceful man in a crane-patterned tunic under the cold branches behind the temple; he claims to be a forester, yet always protects her when she’s framed by her elder sister or looked down upon by servants—snatches back her mother’s medicine jar, teaches her to make lamps from pine resin, and even tucks a blooming wintersweet branch into her hair when she cries from injustice. When an imperial edict arrives to search for Prince Jin, Su Wan is shocked: the man who always gives her the best is none other than the missing war god Prince Jin, who’s been hiding here just to wait for the little girl who once slipped osmanthus cakes into his military tent—he was a fallen general’s son back then, now she’s a rising concubine daughter, and this time, it’s his turn to guard her. As court schemes reach the temple’s gates, can they go from "waiting for the crane’s call" to "standing side by side in the kingdom"?

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