Yu Ziyuan time travel fix it (eventual Yu Ziyuan/Zhao Zhuliu)

(This is not a fic, just the start of one, and then me talking about what would happen in it. Crossposted from mastodon.)

Yu Ziyuan lay dying.

It wasn’t the first time. She’d been here two times before, bleeding out on the ground of Lotus Pier, coreless, her husband’s lifeless body almost close enough to touch.

No matter how hard she’d tried to avoid it, she still ended up like this in all three of her lives.

At least this time it was just her and Jiang Fengmian. At least she hadn’t had to see her son tortured, his golden core melted, before the Wen dogs slit his throat before her eyes.

No, this time it had been like the first time: she’d put him on a boat with Cangse Sanren’s son, Zidian binding them. She had no way to know what would happen to him, what had happened to him the first time. But he hadn’t died before her. He had a chance.

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