Crimson Plum, Chilling Spear, Shattering the Cloud Palace

On her wedding night, with the red candles still burning, Ling Wei, daughter of the General Who Guards the Nation, is struck by a devastating upheaval. Her family is falsely accused of colluding with the enemy and betraying the country, and the entire clan is sentenced to death. She is imprisoned by her husband’s family, the Marquis of Changping’s household, and falls in an instant from the clouds into hell.

On a night drenched in blood, she snaps her hairpins, tears apart her wedding gown, and uses her family’s Red Plum hairpin as a blade to fight her way out. Behind her lie a shattered marriage and the blood feud of her slain family. Ahead lie the bitter winds and sands of the northern frontier, and a battlefield veiled in layers of mystery.

Disguised under an assumed name, she joins the army, hiding her peerless beauty beneath cold, hard armor and turning her bone-deep grief into the sharp whistle of her spear cutting through the air. At the border where her father, brothers, and thirty thousand brave souls were lost, she will tear open the veil of conspiracy with her own hands.

The cold-faced Prince Xiao Yu is her dangerous ally. Shen Mingxuan, the once-loving husband, is now the enemy she relentlessly pursues. In this desperate struggle, all she has is the bloodstained Red Plum Spear and her unyielding will to fight to the death. She will pierce through every encirclement and carve a path to survival through mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

This is the path of rebirth for a woman general, and a revenge plot played out on the world as its chessboard. With the Red Plum as her proof and the cold spear as her brush, she will write a tale that shakes the court: a quest for vindication and revenge.