Huo Wantang, the last daughter of a military family, was forced into a wedding to bring good fortune on the seventh day of mourning at her family's funeral. Nanny Li threatened her with the military records of 376 former Huo family soldiers, leaving her no choice but to sign the marriage contract and wed into the household of the imperial court's powerful Chief of the Secret Guard.
Legend said the chief was a ruthless, shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later "Mute Yama," a killer whose voice had been poisoned away. But Huo Wantang had an innate ability called "Bone Listening": when her palm touched an object, she could hear the past it carried. The moment she signed the marriage contract, she heard the story of five years ago from a copper button and a bone whistle...
Her groom was none other than Pei Zhiyuan, the young man who had placed third in the palace examination five years ago, only to see his sect framed and wiped out overnight. He had been drugged into silence and sent to the Secret Guard camp. He had survived to become the Yama, his hands stained with blood, yet he locked her name in his throat and never once called out to her again.
He wanted revenge; she wanted to protect people. This marriage, meant to bring him good fortune, became a conspiracy they shared without a word. But the Liu family's falsified accounts, He Shouzhuo's framing, the label of "demon," and the ambush poised to unfold at their wedding... A vast net was closing in from every side.
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
