The Arbiter of Fate

The Arbiter of Fate, a star lord in the nine heavens, governs the destinies of all things but cannot govern her own marriage fate. After her confession is rejected, she drinks and enters a dream, accidentally falling into the Void of Ten Thousand Heavens, where the orphaned descendant of an ancient divine dragon, Chang Yuan, is imprisoned. Chang Yuan was imprisoned for ten thousand years because of a heavenly prophecy that "this dragon will destroy heaven and earth," and has been lonely ever since. Learning of this cause and effect, the Arbiter resolves to rewrite his fate for him: using herself as the guide, she writes four words in the book of destinies—"the dragon returns to heaven and earth." When the book of destinies fulfills itself, the Arbiter is reincarnated as a mortal orphan girl, Er Sheng, and in hardship reunites with the gravely wounded Chang Yuan. Er Sheng is led step by step into the demonic path by evil spirits; to free her, Chang Yuan willingly returns to the forbidden land to suffer eternal loneliness in exchange for Er Sheng's return to heaven to be a carefree star lord. In this life the two are separated by life and death. Returning to heaven, the Arbiter loses her memory, yet unexpectedly recovers that same book of destinies and discovers that the person carved into her heart cannot truly be forgotten even when memory is taken away. She again finds a way to rescue Chang Yuan and finally understands that "the dragon returns to heaven and earth" is the book of heavenly fate, not something her single brush can control. The story is about: the one who writes fate falls in love with the one who answers to fate; one refuses to bow to the rules, the other is willing to fulfill the other through ten thousand years of loneliness; the two weigh heavenly law against love again and again, and finally find a heaven and earth of their own.