For a thousand years, the cold-faced general Xie Wujiu has guarded the underground palace beneath Shen Zhao’s ancestral home as a spirit, waiting for her to repent. Back then, she had personally pushed him into a live-burial pit. Now an archaeologist, Shen Zhao accidentally reopens the underground palace and discovers that the general’s spirit has not faded. Using blood as ink and dreams as a pact, he invades her consciousness day after day, forcing her to confront her sins. But when she finally falls to her knees in tears, Xie Wujiu says coldly, “Repent? I wasn’t waiting for your tears. I was waiting for you to find the courage to destroy this thousand-year-old curse with your own hands.” A journey of redemption that crosses the boundary between life and death begins, but deep in the underground palace, a third pair of eyes is watching...
