On her sixteenth birthday, Su Huaping received six broken betrothal agreements at once.
If the Kingdom of Shuo also rejected her, she would be sent back to Shengdu to be executed.
She didn't board the carriage bound for Shuo. Instead, dressed in her wedding gown, she climbed into a coffin.
The Great Su Dynasty fell the day she was born, and the empress of the new dynasty died suddenly when Su Huaping turned one month old.
The seven kingdoms call her an ill-omened daughter of a fallen state. They take turns raising her, and they take turns waiting for her to die.
But she refuses to die.
She reopens the Red-and-White Crossing, using wedding processions to escort the living out of the city and coffins to carry the "dead" through the gates.
She helps women escape unwanted marriages, fake their deaths, and take new names, while searching for a way to survive herself.
All seven kingdoms want her dead.
She will use the road of the dead to return alive...
