Xie Xue, who was in charge of the execution of thousands of households in Dongchang, was an evil ghost who crawled out of the sea of fire and corpses when the Su family was wiped out twenty years ago. She embroidered a spring knife and drank countless blood. She only saw "dead people" and "people waiting to die" in her eyes. She fought for her undefeated reputation in the East Factory and the court. The missing silver hairpin around her waist was the only thing she thought about.
Until Shen Jinghan, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, was born, the two became rivals fighting for food at the tip of a knife: fighting for account books in the granary of the household department, fighting for clues in the bandit den in western Hunan, and fighting for the lead in the border chaos. Every confrontation was fierce, but when the hidden arrows struck, they instinctively blocked the fatal blow for the other side.
Half of the hairpin in the secret room of the gangster's den finally revealed the dust-laden truth - Xie Xue's family feud has the same origin as Shen Jinghan's father's injustice. When the two of them turned from mortal enemies to allies and worked side by side to tear apart the conspiracy web of the eunuch in charge of the ceremony, Shen Jinghan's words, "If you want to kill her, step over my body first" made Xie Xuebing's heart crack.
But in the main hall of the palace coup, he stabbed her chest with a long sword. In the cold edge of the sword, she saw the pain surging in his eyes, and also caught a glimpse of the words "Protect Xie Xue for a lifetime" that he secretly left behind when he was a boy on his silver hairpin.
The oath made twenty years ago, and the swords facing each other twenty years later, are they involuntary under the imperial power, or are they helpless sacrifices in a revenge chess game? The hairpins are broken, love and hate are hard to understand, and they will finally find out the truth amidst the blood in the court and the old wounds in their hearts.
