On a rainy night in the Great Yin Dynasty, dragon-and-phoenix twins should have been a blessed omen. Yet the infant girl, destined to become empress, was abandoned in a swaddling cloth embroidered with the crown prince’s insignia, carrying only half of a jade pendant engraved with the character “Luan.” The emperor was attacked while investigating the truth and lost his memory. The empress kept vigil in the palace for fifteen years, while the Marquis of Zhen Guo searched for the child in secret.
Shangguan Mingluan, a “ghost doctor” carrying memories of her past life, bears a cinnabar mark between her brows like a phoenix weeping blood. While rescuing someone in the mountains, she saves the empress, who is traveling incognito, and is drawn into the palace’s treacherous currents. The gentle crown prince harbors an obsession with finding his younger sister, while the chancellor’s daughter hides a blade behind her smile, and political schemes rage through the court. As the broken jade pendant is about to be pieced back together, can she uncover the mystery of the twins and turn the tide amid a bloody conspiracy?
