Beneath her straw rain cape and bamboo hat, she is just an ordinary bean farmer in Qingluo Village. But hidden deep in her bamboo basket are poisoned silver needles and debts not yet settled. Mu Ran, the “Blood Hibiscus,” had faked her death and gone into hiding, but one stormy night shattered her quiet life. When she brings home Long Yuxuan, a young man poisoned with the deadly Soul-Locking Lure, the gears of fate begin to turn. Secrets of the former dynasty surface among the rice paddies, while the Black Crow assassins' footsteps shatter the morning dew. Mu Ran wields her hoe like a sword and uses poison in place of tea, navigating between cooking smoke and blood mist. When the truth is finally revealed and every enemy has been slain, the young man who was once at death's door has grown into someone able to stand by her side.
