Lin Jingshu, a former noblewoman of the Qing Dynasty, was abandoned by her family. After her biological mother died tragically and her younger brother died in infancy, she was forced by her stepmother to marry the warlord Huo Linyuan on her sister's behalf and suffered all the humiliation. On her wedding night, a mysterious fire "burned to death" and burned away her last innocence.
She crawled back from hell.
With E Niang's blood letter, his brother's longevity lock, and a handful of hatred tempered with arsenic. She reached a devil's contract with the ambitious young marshal Huo Linyuan - she cleared obstacles for him, and he helped her kill the enemy.
As a result, Shencheng has a "dead" ghost.
She is the mysterious "Secretary Shen" beside Huo Shuai, the dock coolie "Su Wanniang", the life-threatening shadow in the rain at night in Jinmen, and the human-shaped bomb that burned with the ammunition at Luowen Valley. In the beautifully dressed banquet hall, she smiled as her enemies devoured each other; in the dirty and bloody dark alleys, she personally sent the devil to hell; in the beacon smoke of the defeated North China front line, she ignited the last flame of revenge with the unyielding remnant soldiers.
In this deadly game where marriage is the chessboard and revenge is the chessboard:
Why did the stepmother, as poisonous as a snake and a scorpion, pawn family heirlooms to collude with Japanese businessmen?
How could a sanctimonious father poison and kill his wife and daughter just to cling to power?
How can a hypocritical and selfish fiancé go crazy amid interests and betrayal?
And is that unfathomable young commander her blade of revenge or her final prisoner?
When personal blood feud collides with national danger, when exquisite calculation meets the most primitive fight——
From the Shencheng Mansion to the Great Wall Beacon, from the secret alleys to the frontal battlefield, Lin Jingshu's knife will eventually cut through all the conspiracies and disguises. In the bloody dawn, she will fight for herself and for everyone.
