Jiangzhou, the heart of the Taiping Dynasty.
The fragrance of ink in Bailu Academy is soaked in the pure talk of philosophy, and the benevolence of Xinglin's family hides the cold front of strife among aristocratic families. The blurred water town where clouds, mist and blue waves dance together is also a bloody chessboard for power games.
Yang Hui, the pearl of the Yang family in Hongnong, was once as bright as the scorching sun.
In his previous life, he mistakenly paid the emperor Xiao Jue to help him reach the top, but in exchange, his father and brother died tragically, the family was overthrown, and he was imprisoned in the cold palace.
A dream brought me back to fifteen years old. Fire is tempered into ice.
Yang Hui returned with deep hatred, vowing to cut off his fate, protect the family, and take revenge on the wolf dressed as a hero! She watched Xiao Jue's pretended affection with cold eyes, turning the alienation into a sharp blade. In his previous life, she was his ladder to heaven, but in this life, she will be his rope to take his life!
She used her body as a bait and worked step by step, weaving a dragnet of revenge among the blue waves, the boat and the heavy rain.
When Xiao Jue's imperial dream is shattered inch by inch in the smoke and water of Jiangzhou, can Yang Hui break free from the shackles of his previous life and find the true peace above the blue waves after the clouds and mists dissipate in the warm sunshine of northern Xinjiang?
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.
