Shen Qingci, the legitimate daughter of a marquis’s household, had everything taken from her by her father’s favored concubine. Even the restoration craft that gave her soul a home was destroyed. After her very sense of self was thoroughly murdered, she turned the deft hands she once used to mend into a blade for dismantling her hypocritical family. In the end, she stands alongside the powerful minister Xie Tingzhou, who sees straight through to her soul, leaving the ruins of the inner household behind to take on the vast world beyond.
