The Glamorous Shadow in Brocade

Spring of the thirty-sixth year of the Wanli reign, Shuyu Studio in the capital.

Eighteen-year-old Su Wanqing receives a blood-soaked man from the Embroidered Uniform Guard: Lin Zhan.

He brings news of her older brother Su Shendu's death, along with half of a jade pendant carved with a dragon. The moment the two halves are joined, a coastal defense map called “Hidden Scale” appears, marking three hundred secret gunpowder depots stretching from the Yalu River to Nanjing. It is the Ming Dynasty's last trump card, and the prey eunuch Cao Xian is determined to claim.

From the capital to the Yalu River, from the cellar of an unnamed island to the underground palace at Xiaoling Mausoleum, the two flee their pursuers and stand together through every escape.

The spirits of three hundred Embroidered Uniform Guards, sixteen years of watch kept by a one-eyed man, a thirty-year vow to guard the mausoleum: generation after generation gives everything, all to protect those four words:

Let the jade shatter, but the lamp keep burning.

The abyss is ever-present, but those who bear the flame endure.