In 1295, when Dadu's red makeup was bending the camel's back, Kuokuozhen's palms were feeling hot.
She is the Persian bride appointed by Kublai Khan. There are 72 shadows locked in the Beichen beads as a dowry. From Princess Jieyou to Ashina, the bones and blood of each "Star Path Bride" are condensed into stardust in the beads, hiding the screams of being sacrificed by fire, the tampered marriage certificate, and the bones eaten by sandworms.
No one told her that this distant marriage was a sacrifice. Arhun's sarcophagus had long been immersed in the blood pool of the Holy Fire Altar. There were scales of the sand spirit hidden under Haihedu's smile. Even Kublai Khan's marriage edict was stained with the nail dust of the 72nd bride.
On the night when the sandstorm swallowed up the caravan, Beichen Pearl exploded the first crack in her palm. Fragments like a galaxy poured out: the scene of the Uighur princess being poisoned by her maid in 821, the scream of the Persian princess when she discovered that her husband was a shadow in 330, the daughter of Genghis Khan screaming at the starry sky in 1206...
"They never wanted a bride, but your blood." 72 Voices resonated in her ears.
When the Persian holy fire licked the wedding dress, Kuokuozhen finally grasped the exploding stardust. She is not the 73rd sacrifice, she is the one who exploded the 72 obsessions into the galaxy——
"From Dadu to Persia, I will change the destination of this wedding journey myself."
