Blood Gamble in the Jianghu

The blood-red game of chess begins. Who will make the first move?

The coming-of-age banquet for Shen Yanshu, young lord of the Shen clan of Cangming, became an arena of slaughter that wiped out his entire family. Clutching a bloodstained bronze key pendant as he plunged into the underground river, he finally learned that the image of the upright gentleman he had maintained for nineteen years was a lie carefully woven by his father. A poisoned sleeve dart from his sickly cousin, the scarlet scorpion tattoos of the imperial shadow guards, and the Heavenly Secret Ice Silkworm Thread on the fingertips of his drowned twin sister tore away the warm, loving facade of a century-old clan.