The Palace of Bardo

Driven to the brink by an emperor consumed with a maddening obsession, one man chose to end his own life rather than remain bound to such suffocating devotion. His final wish was simple: to never see the ruler again and to have every memory of him erased from existence. Death, he believed, would be the ultimate escape from a love that felt more like a cage. Yet, over a century later, fate delivers a cruel twist. He is reborn into a new life with his past memories entirely intact, carrying the very recollections he had prayed to lose. The vow he made in his previous life—to sever all ties with the emperor—seems impossible to uphold when the shadows of the past refuse to fade. Even death could not grant him the freedom he so desperately sought. Despite his relentless efforts to forge a new path far removed from his tragic history, the universe has other plans. In a devastating turn of events, he finds himself standing face-to-face with the reincarnated emperor. Bound across lifetimes by an inescapable tether, he must now confront the haunting realization that neither time nor death can sever the obsessive bond between them.