Burn the Scrolls, Wield the Wu Hook

Gu Linchuan, famed throughout the capital in his youth for his talent at carving ice and sculpting snow, cast aside his books when the nation fell.

He fought through the flames of war to earn his general’s title and rise to prominence in a chaotic age, never realizing that the most perilous battle of his life would take place behind embroidered curtains.

Behind those curtains, on the night the Chancellor’s daughter, Liu Fuyan, secretly gifted him a jade pendant bearing military secrets, she quietly entrusted him with her heart as well.

On their wedding night, with the candles still burning, the Chancellor sneered as he pierced Gu Linchuan’s armor: “Dear son-in-law, do you know? The fief promised to me by the Wolf Lord of the Northern Border is in need of a new governor.”

Just as the broken blade touched his neck, Liu Fuyan suddenly lunged forward. As blood splashed across her white robes, she cried out only one sentence: “Run!”

Before long, notices were plastered across the city: The murderous traitor who poisoned her father has conspired with a rebel general. Kill them on sight.

Clutching the bloodstained remnants of a military report, Gu Linchuan slaughtered his way through the enemy camp, only to discover that the Northern Border had been laying its plans for twenty years...

The blue jade pendant they had exchanged as a token of love was, in fact, a blood-sealed token used by enemy spies to identify those belonging to the Chancellor’s household.