Twenty years ago, the Empress Dowager held power and ordered the extermination of the Yun clan, who opposed her rule. Only one member of the clan escaped. He fled to the border and settled down, but years later, when unrest gripped the frontier, his son Li Mu returned to the capital, where dark currents ran beneath the surface. There he met the wandering mystic Li Yinsheng and Tang Qing, owner of the Baisheng Inn. Later, through the arrangements of an old friend of his father’s, he concealed his identity and took a post at the Dali Temple. Dark sorcery, the Cloud-Turning Blade’s reappearance, living corpses...
As Princess Wenzhi and Cheng Jue, heir to the Prince Cheng’s residence, wage a covert struggle for revenge and power, is Li Mu truly innocent?
