Pruning Spring Beneath the Ashen Night

The wronged spirit of a Republic-era female spy lives inside me. Now, the people who hunted her have crossed eighty years of time to find me. My name is Gu Yuerci, and I was an ordinary antique shop clerk until I touched a qipao embroidered with spider lilies. The soul of Qiu Lan, a military intelligence agent, awoke inside me, bringing her assassination skills and shattered memories, and forcing me to dance with her. She was “Lan,” betrayed by her own comrades, and she swore to clear her name. I only want my life back. The rift in time and space has already torn open. A seemingly mild-mannered historian holds a pocket watch that can unlock the past. An elegant foundation chairwoman is tied to the sordid secrets of her ancestors. And a half-mechanical monster from 1943 is using Qiu Lan’s eyes to track our every struggle in the present day. The blood-red messages on the qipao are fading, while Qiu Lan’s resentment and my consciousness devour each other. If we don’t uncover the truth behind the “Beiping Plan” before the next full moon, my soul will be exiled alongside hers forever in the cracks between time, until we’re reduced to nothing. In this body, are we each other’s undoing, or our only hope of survival? When the spider lilies are stained red with blood again, will I devour her past and take revenge, or will she erase my future... and be reborn?