In the 19th year of Yongle's reign, Beijing was blocked by heavy snow. Shen Yan, the commander of Jinyiwei, is a cold-faced Shura who has been ordered to kill people all his life and has never survived. But tonight, he was summoned to the palace by a secret edict - asking him to kill a person who "shouldn't die" before dawn: the deposed prince Zhu Zhanhe.
And Zhu Zhanhe was a young man who he raised with his own hands.
After ten years of hiding, Shen Yan had already refined his bones and blood into a knife, but he only missed the tenderness at the tip of his heart. The secret edict, the blood letter, the emperor on the dragon throne... Amidst the layers of confusion, he resisted the edict for the first time.
"I won't save you tonight." Shen Yan pressed the back of the knife against the young man's throat, and snow fell all over his shoulders, "I will save myself."
