The magician Qiye’s astonishing sleight of hand seemed like real magic, leaving the world stunned.
Because no one understood him, he was framed and locked away in a psychiatric hospital.
He could hypnotize people with nothing but his eyes, so they bound them with black satin.
In the hospital, Qiye never resisted. He took his medicine and ate his meals on time every day.
Then, on the day of the blood moon, he stood by the window and slowly peeled the black blindfold away, one hand at a time. The moment he opened his mismatched eyes, he vanished from the window, leaving behind a roll of bandages.
When he woke again, he had returned to the Ming dynasty six hundred years earlier, transmigrated into the body of Lan Chaoshu, the legitimate son of Lan Yu. Less than a year remained before the Lan Yu case…