The fall of Yongchang's twin stars in three years opened the first crack in the twenty-year scam. When the crazy criticizing general Shen Zhiyi put the tip of his knife against the throat of Xie Huaixu, the first disciple of the Imperial Army, no one knew that their memories had been tampered with and turned into the nourishment of hatred.
Nine bizarre cases were like bloody chains, dragging the two people toward the abyss. The black iron in the armory exudes the fragrance of apricot flowers, the star map in the underground palace of the imperial mausoleum is engraved with childhood codes, and in the eyes of each corpse, there is a past that they cannot remember. Shen Zhiyi saw Xie Huaixu's hands in the battlefield, and Xie Huaixu recognized Shen Zhiyi's marksmanship traces from the broken pages of ancient books - are these flashbacks a rope for redemption, or a deeper trap?
The situation in the court is treacherous. The princelings and the vassal kings are fighting for the "Shadow Guard" list. The foreign countries on the border have united three tribes to send 300,000 soldiers. When Xie Huaixu discovered that the bronze bell of the imperial master could control memory, and when Shen Zhiyi took the blood-stained birthday card from his master, they finally understood that the so-called old enemy was just the saddest bait in the chess game.
"I want you to remember me alive." Beside the bonfire on a snowy night, Shen Zhiyi grabbed Xie Huaixu's wrist that was eroded by poison. When the final battle comes, the two swords join together to split open the Dragon Vein Chamber, and twenty years of misaligned lives are reunited in blood and fire - this time, their backs are only given to each other, and their stars will never fall.
