On their wedding night, before the red candles had even burned low, his beloved bride, Nan Shui'er, turned into shards of jade scattered across the floor, mingled with streaks of blood. Only when Chang Gong Tingyan awakened the Burning Heaven Divine Meridian did he discover that the woman beside him was the reincarnation of a fragment of an ancient goddess's soul. The Ice-Soul Phoenix Pendant concealed a blood curse capable of slaying gods, while the Nine Heavens Cloud Palace held the debts of nine hundred cycles of love. Every time they touched, they tore through time and space, bringing the battlefield of gods and demons back to life. When the corrupted remnant of the goddess's soul snuffed out the final lamp of life, Chang Gong Tingyan finally understood: their wedding night had really been a life-preserving scheme Nan Shui'er had devised for him with a thousand years of loneliness. In this deadly trial, where love is the blade and blood the pact, who is truly the one moving the pieces on Heaven's chessboard?
