In the depths of winter in the thirteenth year of Yongchang, Shen Qingge, the legitimate daughter of the Shen family, breathed her last in the woodshed. But amid the sea of flames, she glimpsed a shocking conspiracy hidden for twenty years. Her rebirth was no accident: it was a carefully planned sacrifice, laid out across a hundred cycles of reincarnation. From the poisonous schemes of a great household to an ancient city in the Western Regions, from the secret realm of Guixu to strange cases in Jiangnan, a stunning game of strategy spanning the worlds of humans and demons slowly unfolds.
When a cinnabar mole becomes a heart-devouring parasite, and her closest kin become the chains of reincarnation, Shen Qingge and Ninth Prince Xiao Jingyi gradually uncover the truth beneath the blood moon through love and hate: what is called rebirth is nothing more than a discarded piece on a divine chessboard, still waiting to be moved.
