A thousand-year-old mulberry grove conceals secrets of bronze sorcery. The Chen bloodline raises snakes to suppress spirits, while the Ye clan’s shamanesses carve out their hearts as offerings to the tower. When the girl in the ice coffin awakens, the remains of a Bashe beneath the bronze altar set the cycle of fate in motion again...
Ye Piaoling, an orphaned shamaness bearing twin souls, takes the Lu Ban Secret Records into the Chen clan’s forbidden grounds, only to uncover a shocking lie behind a blood-bound marriage pact. Chen Shangang, the tower-guarding general with a heart-burning Gu planted in him, has frost-white hair, and every sword thrust leads him into a tribulation of love. Hongyao turns Gu into blades, consumed by love and hate, weaving the bronze snake’s shed skin into a deadly trap.
Mirrored timelines reverse cause and effect. A symbiotic Gu tears apart flesh and soul, and the wedding ceremony beneath the blood moon becomes a plot to slay the gods. The twin flowers burn away, bringing the mulberry grove back to life, yet revealing a second blood moon lying dormant deep within the earth’s veins. A faded red cord cannot bind the fireflies of memory. Golden blood seeping from bronze snake scales is quietly awakening whispers from the primordial age...
(This book follows the thread of bronze civilization to tell a tale of love and hate spanning two generations.)
