If two people are fated to be together, the entire Universe conspires to unite them.
Theirs is a bond that began in their past lives. A bond that brought them together without them realizing it. A bond that underlies the chronicles of war and struggle for Independence.
When Mu Lan first met Wang Tao, and fell in love with him, she didn't realize it. By the time she knew herself, he'd disappeared. And that was when she'd known that everything she knew about him till then is a lie.
It wasn't as if she hadn't hidden anything from him either: she never told him anything of her nightmares. Or the reasons she even had them.
Given away to her aunt by her parents when she was just five years old, she grew up travelling around the world. And when her biological parents finally called her back home to China, little did she realize that her entire life is going to turn on its own axis.
Her birth parents seem like strangers, she has a biological sister who she's never met and who's already married with a child, a cousin who's cold and ambitious, and receives a marriage proposal from one of the most powerful family in the country.
In her past life, she'd never been able to see the light of the sun. And the now, the rays seem too bright to her. As past and present merge and become one, as love and hatred get tangled up, as secrets don't remain secrets anymore, where will the future lead them to?
Set in China and partly in the United States, the thrilling novel spans across two generations starkly different, and revisits the bloody era of the Sino-Japanese War.
As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams?
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Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life.
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