In the 23rd year of the Republic of China, Linchuan City was an important salt merchant town in the south of the Yangtze River.
A carved gate tower trapped the Shen family's residence into a golden cage, and also trapped Shen Qingrong, the third daughter of the Shen family, throughout her life. She was born with ice-cold muscles and jade bones, but was frail since childhood and was judged to be "not able to survive more than two decades." She was full of poems and books, but because of her frailty, she was regarded as a "burden" by her family and was forced to marry a dandy. However, what really destroyed her was not her diseased bones, but a carefully designed yellow ballad - when lies turned into poisonous fireflies, flying on the bluestone road of Linchuan City, all the vivid past became funerary objects...
Shen Qingrong's reputation was never cleared until his death, and what is truly chilling is: "What the world needs is never the truth, but a story for them to chew on."
