Shen Zhaoxue, a senior female physician, is forced into a whirlpool of political scheming as she investigates the truth behind her family’s massacre. In a lawless world on the brink of collapse, she and the calculating regent Lu Hanzhou love and fight with equal intensity. When she discovers he is the mastermind behind it all, she risks her life to expose a millennia-old witchcraft curse. At the brink of death, he forcibly keeps her alive, and the two embark on a tortured romance of intrigue and redemption.
