When she was nine years old, Ji Ling witnessed her family being reduced to ashes in the flames, and what brought destruction was the most cold-blooded sword under the emperor - Yun Zhi, the chief of the Yin Cha Division. He burned her world with his own hands, but from the mountain of corpses and sea of blood, he picked up this little beast with poisonous eyes and imprisoned her under his wings.
Ten years. Under the protection of her enemies, Ji Ling grew up to be a pampered canary in the Yun Mansion in the eyes of the world, with muscles of ice and bones, and unparalleled intelligence. She learned from his forbearance and inherited his coldness. The "heart-knocking bell" left by her deceased mother, Mrs. Shuli, around her waist was a silent accusation of her ten years of blood and tears, and a brand of revenge carved into her bones. She clung obediently, just waiting for an opportunity to strangle the big tree by its roots.
However, the whirlpool of deep palace intrigue never stops. The ambition behind the hypocritical mask of Chief Assistant Ji Yanting, the secret behind the innocence of sister Ji You, and Mrs. Shu Li, who was rumored to be dead long ago but reappears like a ghost... All clues point to the more terrifying truth behind the murder ten years ago. When the royal bloodline of Yun Zhi, who was the orphan of a palace accident twenty years ago, surfaced, Ji Ling was shocked to realize that the overthrow of Ji Mansion was actually the result of a bloody chess game between him and his biological father, Ji Yanting.
The heart-knocking bell hanging around the waist day and night is not only a witness to the late mother's hatred, but also a sharp blade that tears apart the twisted bond between the two. Every time the bell rings, it is asking about the cold and cruel past and the inescapable fate.
"Little A-Ling," he stroked the silver bell with his fingertips, his voice as bewitching as a whisper from the abyss, "Listen, it is asking my heart for you."
But her heart was burned out in the bloody flames when she was nine years old, leaving only poisonous blood flowing, beating only for revenge...
