This is purely a product of an overactive imagination and a spur-of-the-moment idea. Some parts may not make sense, so please go easy on me. I haven't come up with a proper synopsis yet.
Her name was Zhang Haili, the purest-blooded Qilin woman born to the Zhang family in a hundred years.
From the moment she was born, her fate had been decided: she would become the clan leader's wife and serve as a "remedy" to strengthen the family's increasingly diluted bloodline.
In the ancient city of Sishui, the clan leader changed. She married Zhang Qiling, the silent man who had returned from Sishui.
There were no wedding candles, no tenderness. Only the crumbling, thousand-year-old family behind her, on the brink of collapse.
With an iron hand, she held the disintegrating Zhang family together. Alone, she ventured into the blizzards of Changbai Mountain and guarded the Ultimate Gate for her clan.
Many years later, when she returned, the world had changed. Zhang Qiling had lost his memory and was trapped. To save him, she made a solemn ten-year pact with Ninth Master Xie.
From then on, the last wife of the Zhang clan leader erased every trace of herself and became the silent "teacher" and protector at the side of Xie Yuchen, young master of the Xie family, one of the Nine Families.
Xie Yuchen knew only that she was the sharpest blade his grandfather had left behind, and the shield that protected him through every storm. He never saw the way she looked toward Changbai as she wiped away the blood, nor did he know that beneath her calm instruction lay a century-old secret scheme concerning the survival of the Zhang family and the cleansing of the Nine Families. As the Wang family's shadow quietly spread, the balance among the Nine Families was once again broken...
