A crow-blue stone clasp etched with cloud patterns brings to light a decade-old massacre and blood feud; an assassination amid a shocking upheaval deep within the palace shatters a fate long frozen in ice.
She is the sharpest blade of the Ice Sacrifice Sect, code-named Shadow. Afflicted with the Ice Soul Gu, her hands are stained with blood and her heart conceals an abyss. She thought all that remained of her life was killing and darkness, until she accidentally rescued the clear-eyed daughter of the prime minister in a ruined temple in the Western Market.
He is Li Jingyan, heir to the throne, bearing the weight of the realm on his shoulders and carefully plotting each step. That fleeting glimpse within the palace walls, those ice-tempered eyes, became an image he could never shake from his heart.
When an assassin and the crown prince forge a secret pact, when the Gu brothers, separated for ten years, reunite because of a single button, and when old dreams of Wuchen Village intertwine with a conspiracy at the Purple Ice Abyss in the Northern Frontier...
The cold blade will eventually grow warm, and the heart frozen in ice will one day welcome the sun. Together, they brave the snowstorms of the Northern Frontier and survive the desperate depths of the Ice Prison. With blood and fire as their offering, they break the cult's chains and redeem each other's shattered souls.
The storms will eventually pass, and love and the road home will always be waiting ahead.
