Yun Qian Mu’s life was a long prison that began with “salvation.” Xiao Mu Ye saved her as a child, but because he held her under his thumb, she was forced into the abyss of medicine and poison. She became his personal test subject, as well as a source of blood whenever he needed it.
What kept Yun Qian Mu going through it all was an obsession buried deep for ten years: avenging her parents. The mastermind behind their deaths haunted her like a shadow, impossible to find, but the fire of vengeance in her heart had never gone out.
Bound by two chains, she set out on the path of revenge and unexpectedly crossed paths with Yan Sui. From the day he was born, everyone had called him an emperor. Rumors and expectations had long since become his conviction. He followed that path unwaveringly, certain that one day he would stand at the pinnacle of power.
One struggles through hatred and uncertainty, vowing to tear away every disguise. The other walks alone through fate and power, convinced that nothing can shake his path. Are they merely pawns in each other’s hands, or the first glimmer of a way to break the deadlock? Between the thorns of revenge and the smooth road to imperial power, the fates of Yun Qian Mu and Yan Sui are quietly intertwining.
(This story is entirely fictional and takes place in an alternate history.)
