[Rebirth and a deadly love triangle × Mad political intrigue × The cycle of fate]
Song Ruci died twice.
The first time, she was a pawn manipulated by imperial power. Emperor Lu Xing burned himself to death in the palace because he could not have her. Chief Grand Secretary Wen Yu framed her father to climb the ladder of power. General Yu Zhan let go of her, his heart breaking, so she could be with the man she loved.
Reborn for the second time, she struck back with the pieces in her own hands, only to watch Yu Zhan die in a pool of blood in the imperial prison, Wen Yu drink poison to atone, and herself smash her head against a coiling dragon pillar, cursing the rot of imperial rule with her death.
When she opened her eyes again, all three had returned to three years earlier.
But this time, she had vanished.
On the dragon throne, madness stained Lu Xing’s gaze: imperial physicians force-fed the Lady Song brutal medicine to make her “bear a daughter”; the Imperial Astronomical Bureau summoned spirits in the Phoenix Perch Palace night after night, until every bronze bell beneath the cinnabar banners shattered.
At court, Wen Yu took a dangerous path: he used the power of the Grand Secretariat to switch the poison, sent assassins through the underworld’s secret networks, and let a white jade bamboo hairpin burn at his heart night after night.
Beyond the desolate tombs, Yu Zhan’s blade split the blood moon: he cut his palm with a soul-subduing blade, splashed his war banner with a horse’s heart blood, and roared her name amid the cries of ten thousand ghosts…
When a stillborn child was found in Lady Song’s womb, and the blood moon vanished on the night of the spirit-summoning,
a god-slaying scheme, with the realm as its sacrifice and burning hearts as its fuel, thundered back to life in the cycle of rebirth
“If the Heavens will not let you be reborn, then I will burn the Heavens themselves!”
