A ruined silk dress tears a family apart. A wife cheats, and her husband poisons her in the name of love, leaving her disabled. Orphan Chen Nian becomes “Li Daifei” and spends twenty years plotting with painstaking care. At last, he lures his enemy Zhang Haozhe to his death with a sugar-coated trap, then leaps from a cemetery wall, like a butterfly breaking free from the world's cage. With his father dead and his mother gone, young Chen Xiaolong endures humiliation and lies low, using his enemy's power to hone his blade of revenge. After ten years of plotting, he kills the tiger and destroys the snake, then turns himself in and takes responsibility for his bloody crimes. Prison bars gnaw at him to the bone. On the day he is released, the sunlight is blinding. His hunched mother's embrace and an old friend's tearful smile become the first glimmer of dawn in the rest of his guilt-ridden life. Will the Fran Empire founded by Wu Jingmei succeed? And which countries make up the New Four Nations? Let's find out!
