In her previous life, on a snowy night at Suolong Pass, Chu Yue of Xiling was pierced by a thousand arrows. As she lay dying, she branded the humiliating character for “slave” onto the right cheek of the Black-Armored General.
In this life, Shen Jingzhe was reborn after being poisoned, crippled, and left with a lame leg at the frozen lake of the Marquis of Zhenbei’s estate. When she opened her eyes, she saw
Her own bones floating beneath the ice! On the shore, Xiao Jue, who had been ordered to investigate the case, lifted his faceplate and was horrified to see the mark of a massacre!
Three layers of danger closed in:
Her stepmother, “Snow-Seen Sorrow,” poisoned her mind;
A coded message aiding the enemy was hidden in her birth mother’s keepsake;
Xiao Jue held a cold blade to her throat: “A remnant of the Golden-Eyed clan, who are you working for?”
She tempered herself with poison and medicine, turning a golden needle in her crippled hand into a sword:
“How does the poison my younger half-sister got from the Twisted Vine feel? Sweet?”
He tore open his clothes to reveal the arrow scar over his heart: “You can take my life anytime. First, help me clear my name.”
At the Vermilion Bird Terrace imperial examination, she cut open her own abdomen to retrieve the antidote, splattering blood across the dragon robe;
On a snowy night at Crying-Mausoleum Slope, he severed his arm and drove a spike through the shackles: “I’ll bear the burden of these thirty thousand lost souls.”
As the conspiracy burned to ashes, an imperial edict of marriage came crashing down:
“Poison the new ruler of Beiman, or watch Xiao Jue be executed by a thousand cuts!”
She left a blood-written farewell and married far away:
“When red flowers bloom like blood at Suolong Pass... my soul will return to see you.”
The new emperor Xiao Jue gouged out his eyes and died in a sea of Snow-Seen Sorrow flowers. The history books record:
“On that day, crimson blossoms blazed across a thousand mountains, and half a suit of armor lay buried in the snow.”
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