Mountains and rivers form the basis, love and hate form the basis, and a glass lamp burns out the moon of Chang'an.
In the twelfth year of Yuanhe, the undercurrent of Chang'an was turbulent. An errand to repair the Jiuluan bead-carrying lantern in the Prime Minister's Mansion led to Shen Qingwu, the daughter of the guilty minister, and Pei Yanxiu, a close minister of the emperor, meeting on a narrow road. The gilt chi pattern lock reproduces the secret pattern of an old case in Yongchang, the Persian silver box reveals the fragments of the Turkic Alliance book, and the strange light when the fish talisman is matched reveals the bloody dusk by the Luoshui River fifteen years ago.
She entered the game alone to clear her wrongs, hiding a sharp edge under the glass lamp; he peeled off the cocoon for the truth, discerning the fragrance of corpses in the pine smoke and ink. From the Zoroastrian murals in Hu Shang's secret room to the bizarre corpse-burning case in the Jiangnan Gongyuan; from the broken mirrors in the Shangsijie meandering water cup, to the wolf-headed secret order in the Shuofang military camp - power and truth are intertwined into a web, and the palace lights reflect the human heart.
But when Pei Yanxiu revealed Shen Qingwu's identity as the princess, he discovered that the Yongchang case actually involved Xianzong's plan to reduce vassal status, military power over trade routes in the Western Regions, and even the dispute over the establishment of the Eastern Palace. The glass lock is opened, the Jiuluan lamp is extinguished, and the shocking secret witnessed by the mute servant will eventually make the fateful enemies make a decision between love, hate, and family and country...
