Ye Tinglan is banished to the Cold Palace, where she is to be forcibly put to death tonight.
A eunuch steals her last keepsake, but accidentally drops the damning evidence into an abandoned well connected to an underground river.
To survive, she pulls out a strand of her hair and sharpens a broken hairpin.
Using her family's ancestral art of treasure hunting underwater, she casts her first hook into the dry well in the depths of the palace.
Not only does she fish up the eunuch's evidence, she also unexpectedly finds the late emperor's missing edict, lost for three years!
But this astonishing catch draws the attention of Xiao Yan, the regent rumored to be ruthless and cold-blooded.
“Fish out the Imperial Seal of Command for this prince, or die.”
With a single strand of ice-silk and a bottomless dry well, Ye Tinglan is forced into a deadly struggle for the throne.
What other earth-shattering secrets lie hidden in the palace's underground river?
