1. The false appearance of Wu Zhou's auspiciousness: The Queen praised peonies as auspicious signs of prosperity, and used flowers and trees to control the national destiny. In fact, the imperial city's centuries-old killings, lust for power and hostility, and the souls of grievances in the palace were all absorbed by the vegetation, and any wood dyed with evil spirits could become evil.
2. The core of peony sending souls: Luoyang peony is an unusual flower and tree. It is a container for souls of grievances, obsessions and evil spirits. The flowers bloom to hide the soul, the flowers fall to release resentments, and the flower roots lock evil spirits.
3. The core rules of Chinese style monsters: Demons arise from people, evil spirits arise from thoughts, there are no born evil monsters, all strange things come from greed for power, seeking wealth, obsession, and killing in the world. If the human heart is pure, evil spirits will disappear.
4. Fateful setting: The heroine Cao Yuanyue is born with the ability to connect to the shades of grass and trees. She can hear the spirit of flowers and see evil spirits. She is bound to the fate of all the evil peonies in Luoyang. She is the only human carrier that can check and balance, empathize and resolve the flower spirits. She can also be taken away by the evil flowers.
Suspense structure
1. The fate of the characters is suspenseful on the surface: Can the father and daughter survive in troubled times?
2. The truth of the mid-level suspense case: Who is behind the strange assassination case?
3. Deep suspense historical folds: Wu Zetian's knot in her later years and Princess Taiping's ambitions
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.