Beneath the starry firmament, fate is a chain.
She is his tutor, and the one who forges him into a blade. Jiang Lin, an orphan born under the Seven Killings star, takes the name of the dead and struggles between a blood feud and a debt of protection. Beneath the ruler’s bamboo, she treats the Crown Prince, Ji Lian, as a pawn, intending to temper him into an instrument of vengeance.
He is her student, and the one who breaks her game. Ji Lian, an abandoned child of the Ziwei star, has endured for years beneath a gentle facade. He draws strength from her even as he longs to conquer that cold figure completely.
When the false emperor’s conspiracy tears the truth apart, their pact as master and student collapses. In this game with all under heaven at stake, will they plunge into the abyss together, or join hands to rewrite the starry firmament?
From pawns to mortal enemies, then to accomplices the world cannot accept: their paths have always led only to each other.
