The Nine Palaces Pipa Ballad

One rainy night, a merciless massacre reduced the once-prominent Baili family to ashes. Only two sisters, like twin lotuses, survived, forced apart in a sea of blood and sent down separate, ill-fated paths.

Baili Feihong: a delicate face, a ruthless mind, graceful as a startled swan and supple as a swimming dragon. By a twist of fate, she came into possession of the Moon-Worshipping Pipa, a divine instrument. Hiding her identity, she devoted herself to mastering the pipa. As the years passed, she made her name in the martial world with her family’s deadly art, the Luoshen Art. At the sound of her pipa, listeners weep as if giving voice to their hearts; its music can stir the soul and break the heart. She wields the pipa as a sword and swears to uncover the truth behind her family’s massacre and avenge her loved ones.

Qin Haotian: a man as graceful as jade, unmatched in the world. With a pen, he can bring peace to the realm; on horseback, he can secure it. Born into royalty and protected by the imperial family, he is drawn into the power struggles of the court and martial world after his father and brothers perish in the battle of Tongguan.

She: brilliant eyes, exquisite beauty, a spirit like autumn waters and bones like white jade. Rescued by a master during the pursuit, she later joins the Xiaoyao Palace, where she learns the astonishing Nine Palace Bells and Moon-Treading Flight. Each chime of the Nine Palace Bells contains the principles of heaven and earth, piercing clouds and stone and shaking mountains and rivers. She roams the martial world, vowing to stamp out injustice wherever she finds it. But love drives her mad, transforming her into a deranged demoness feared by all.

He: peerless in beauty, bewitching and wickedly charming. To save his grandfather, he infiltrates the enemy’s ranks and plays the pig to eat the tiger. When he finally returns, he is bloodthirsty and merciless, and the world is swept into chaos. No one can stand against him. He plunges the entire martial world into a bloodbath and sets his sights on the imperial court.

At last, with blood spilled upon the pipa as witness, fate’s red thread binds the sisters together once more. Shoulder to shoulder, the two heroines take up the pipa and the Nine Palace Bells, composing a song of vengeance and redemption.