From a pampered princess who never had to lift a hand to peel a lychee, she becomes an orphan after her kingdom falls and her family is destroyed. Over three years, she tempers herself with poison and swordsmanship, honing a blade of frost at her fingertips, and founds the Enchanted Pavilion, gathering intelligence from across the land.
She uses cunning to throw the Northern Shuo court into chaos, sweeps the Southern Barbarians’ iron cavalry aside with a sword formation, and wins the allegiance of the thirty-six tribes of the Western Regions through her wits. One by one, she settles every blood debt. On the path to revenge, the masked man becomes both her mentor and her friend. The scars beneath his mask mirror the cold gleam of the sword in her hand.
Once the realm is at peace, she abandons the throne without hesitation and joins him in laying down his armor. Amid the desert’s solitary plumes of smoke, the ghost mask falls to the ground, revealing the face that once picked lychees alongside her. The jianghu road stretches far ahead. Hand in hand, they journey across the land, together for a lifetime.
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