1998, Fengming Town. While her peers were still uncertain about the future, Li Yuan's future had already been written: a bloodline curse that would keep him from living past thirty.
The countdown to his death ticked day and night in his veins. Only when the ancestral Blood Jade Dragon-Suppressing Pendant began inexplicably to grow hot did he glimpse a chance of survival in the Notes on Listening to the Wind left behind by his grandfather, along with an even more brutal truth.
He was the last descendant of the Dragon Bloodline, a living sacrifice fated to use his own flesh and blood to suppress the restless Dragon Veins deep beneath the earth. His destiny was not to live, but to suppress them until death.
To stay alive, he took up the Listening-to-the-Wind Ruler and entered a forbidden land sealed away by history. But he wasn't the only one searching for its secrets. A mysterious organization called the Hou, disguised as a charitable foundation, coveted the ultimate power capable of replacing the world, like greedy vultures circling their prey.
On this road of destiny with no way out, one woman was a gentle harbor, willing to leave it all behind with him and live a quiet, ordinary life. Another was a blazing blade, ready to face the storm and fight by his side. And the brother who would share life and death with him carried a shocking secret that resonated with his own.
When every clue pointed to the legendary Qin Treasury, and protection, betrayal, sacrifice, and love formed an inescapable web, Li Yuan had to make a choice: would he be killed by fate as a sacrifice, or burn away everything to sound a silent requiem for this tragic cycle of a thousand years?
