The embroidered spring blade hides its edge; a jade pendant in a secret pocket gleams coldly.
Su Yan navigates between the Imperial City Bureau and the Listening Wind Pavilion, serving as a double agent in the most perilous of roles, all to secure a sliver of hope amid the whirlpool of power struggles.
His superior conceals a blade behind every smile, the Empress Dowager tries to win him over with warm jade, and his contact mysteriously disappears. Every step is like walking on the edge of a knife.
The canal transport mystery, the trap at the ruined temple, the unknown code: it seems the winners hold all the cards while the losers are at their mercy, yet no one knows that every victory and defeat has already been secretly reversed.
He thinks he is the one wielding the blade to break the deadlock, never realizing he has long been a piece in a far greater game.
No one knows how this mission of infiltration will end. Only by pressing on will the truth emerge.
