In the bitter winter of the apocalypse, people trade their children for food.
Everyone thinks the proprietress of that shady inn at Guichou Pass is just a stunning, helpless beauty, easy prey in a lawless world.
Until the disgraced crown prince, the bloodthirsty devil who once shook the capital, kneels before her door, covered in killing intent, just to beg for a bowl of hot porridge.
Only then do people realize: What songbird in a gilded cage?
She's the real devil, holding the food supplies and the power of life and death in her hands!