[Warning: The female lead is not pure, but all the male leads are. Read with caution]
[One woman x multiple men] In the Great Sheng Dynasty, inside the most bewitching pleasure house in Jinling, the golden powder at Ruan Jiao's temples could steal a man's soul, the silver bells on her wrists concealed poison, and the wolf-head tattoo beneath her skirt could throw the Northern Frontier into chaos. She was the sole survivor of the Tu family massacre in Yangzhou, the cinnabar mole cherished in the heart of the Pei family's heir, an old wound in the heart of a Northern Frontier general, and the most lethal piece on this grand chessboard of power and intrigue.
On the night ten years ago when blood ran through Slender West Lake, she snatched half her life back from a pirate's blade. From then on, she painted a silver phoenix on her shoulder and a golden wolf on her leg, planting the mandrake of revenge in every enemy's tender embrace. In the pleasure house, she shared a night of passion with Pei Yanzhi, the "Jade-Faced Fox," and casually stole his map of secret dealings with the enemy. On a snowy night in the Northern Frontier, she warmed the armor of Huo Chenzhou, the "Cold-Faced Asura," with her body heat, only to plant the toxin that would trigger the Puppet-Controlling Poison in his palm. In a dark alley in the Eastern Depot, she wore the human-skin mask of Xie Yanbing, the "Jade-Faced King of Hell," to kill, then turned around and left a bloodstained mandrake in his incense-scented chamber...
She was adored by all, and a calamity to all. When the men finally realized they were nothing more than pawns crossing her chessboard, they had already fallen into the cinnabar tears at the corners of her eyes. It turned out the cruelest strategy was never blades flashing in the dark. It was making you willingly overturn this vast empire for her.
