To Love a Mortal, To Defy Forever

Gu Qiyan has to stay within three meters of Shen Yuzhen or he burns. The pendant that held him broke when he pulled her out of an attempt on her life, and since then his life runs on hers. He calls himself a god, and an old contract has kept him inside the Shen house for fifty years. Shen Yuzhen is the second daughter of the Shen family, and the people who wanted her dead were her own relatives. She goes on with the business fights she was already in, with Gu Qiyan a few steps behind her at all hours and sharp with her whenever he feels like it. The old lady of the family dies in circumstances nobody can account for, and her will requires Shen Yuzhen to marry before she can inherit. Gu Qiyan proposes without much ceremony. In the middle of all this the two of them find they were husband and wife two thousand years ago, when he was a general who failed her. Fu Hanxing, left an orphan of the Feng family, is behind the moves against them, and he has the pair of them seized.