A bride forced into marriage within the imperial palace, a bloodstained betrothal. Swept up in a shocking secret, she becomes a pawn in a whirlpool of power struggles. When her supposedly dead husband returns with a secret casket, a shattered jade pendant unravels the mystery of her origins. Ghostly fires haunt the palace, dark currents surge across the Southern Seas, and this deadly game with the fate of the realm at stake will ultimately be settled in blood.
