On a night when a great avalanche buried the mountains, nine black-and-gold coffins marked with mysterious patterns burst from the ground at the old Xie family residence. They were empty, save for a blood-jade bone talisman engraved with the name Xie Xuanzhou.
A massacre from ten years ago came to light again, as three high-ranking officials died mysteriously, their bodies bearing exactly the same marks as the Xie family’s dead.
He is a Jianghu investigator, and also the last survivor of the previous dynasty. Overnight, he becomes a fugitive wanted throughout the land.
A cool and aloof physician, a cold-blooded assassin, a marquis’s legitimate daughter, and a famously beautiful courtesan arrive one after another. Each carries a secret, and each falls for him, becoming entangled with him in a dangerous dance of affection and death.
Pursuit, poisoning, betrayal, massacres... The regent’s shadow looms over every chapter, and the danger never lets up.
He thought he was solving a mystery, never realizing that from the moment the first golden coffin appeared, he had already become a pawn in the game.
Ten years of planning, one coffin holding a life.
Every clue leads to a dead end; every flutter of the heart comes with a blade’s edge.
Only at the very last moment, when the blood-jade bone talisman cracks and the Xuan Shu Jade Seal appears, is the stunning hook planted in the first chapter finally revealed: his survival back then was no coincidence!
