In the seventeenth year of Yonghe's reign, Shen Zhiyi, the legitimate daughter of the Yushi Mansion, carried a blood-stained wedding sedan into the Zhenbei Prince's Mansion. Everyone knows that this is a ghost marriage between a sinister prince and a sickly daughter, but they don't know that there is saffron-soaked Henan wine hidden in the sedan chair, and half a phoenix in the bride's sleeve pocket, which echoes the ninety-nine white lanterns that evoke spirits under the eaves of the palace.
Xiao Jingheng, the king of Zhenbei who killed gods and Buddhas, used an embroidered spring knife to poke the bride's chin on the wedding night: "Princess, does she know that the bones of the last person who poisoned my king's wine are feeding carp at the bottom of the lotus pond?" But the dragon tattoo that wandered around his heart was saved by Shen Zhiyi when the poison was poisoned.
When the memory of the Holy Maiden of the Witch Clan awakened, Shen Zhiyi realized that all the legitimate daughters of the family for sixteen years were false - the three thousand mantras locked under the lotus pond were the tampered fates of the twins; hidden in Feng Linjue was the blood edict of the late emperor who killed his wife and heir; and the ferocious wound on Xiao Jingheng's back contained taboos that the Xiao royal family had not dared to speak of for centuries.
Under the bloody star map, she held the blade against the dragon mark on his heart: "Do you want me to be the wedding bride, or the regicide blade?" He stabbed the embroidered spring knife into his life gate with his backhand, and the black dragon's true energy crushed the Gu worms in the sky: "I bet this life that I have retrieved from hell, in exchange for you to seek the truth from the hands of the King of Hell."
The broken lotus weeps blood, the white lantern illuminates the white bones in the palace; the golden scales are against the scales, and the embroidered spring knife cuts through the lies of the past life. This marriage that started as a conspiracy eventually became a calamity that overthrew the dynasty - when the mantra at the bottom of the lotus pond is revealed again, who is the true phoenix being sacrificed, and who is the evil dragon trapped in the cage?
