A blood-jade pendant, a curse binding two generations. Eighteen years ago, it bore witness to the slaughter of Xiao Tianjue, leader of the martial world, and his entire household. Only his infant daughter, Xiao Li, survived, vanishing after falling from a cliff. Eighteen years later, in the Year of the Fire Horse, the blood jade reappears in the martial world. Rumor has it that “whoever obtains it may unlock the secrets of Heaven, but will also invite a deadly disaster.”
Xiao Li disguises herself as a zither player and infiltrates Jinling, where she meets Yue Qingshuang, daughter of the martial world’s leader. One is cold and elegant as frost, investigating the truth behind her family’s destruction; the other is bright as flame, with a mysterious past. When the two halves of the blood jade come together, they reveal not only a map to a hidden treasure, but also a cruel prophecy: “When the twins fall, the world will crumble.”
Shen Ye, an assassin from the Azure Dragon Society, is ordered to seize the jade, but gradually falls into a love entanglement. The gentle Xie family heir, Yunzhou, stays by their side, carrying secrets of his own family. And the mastermind behind it all may be a relative, or someone they love most. In this game of chess, with the martial world as the board and human hearts as the pieces, the sisters discover that the blood jade’s most vicious curse is not slaughter, but making those bound by blood become fated enemies.
From the eerie mists of Jinling to the imperial tombs of the northern deserts, from martial-world feuds to the hidden currents of court politics, they must break the curse before the blood jade’s prophecy comes true, or… become fate itself.
