The Shen family is drenched in blood at the execution ground, destroyed in a single night.
Shen Qingci, the Grand Tutor’s legitimate daughter, becomes the orphaned child of a condemned family, trapped in the palace and forced to play every move like a chess piece.
Behind towering red walls, under year-round frost and snow, she arrives carrying a blood feud, lying low and biding her time, a blade hidden by her pillow.
The young emperor Xiao Che holds an empire in one hand and wears shackles around his soul.
He personally signed the decree exterminating her family and pushed her into hell, yet in places where no one could see, he protected her year after year.
Bound together by love and hate, unable to tell right from wrong, old grudges carved into their bones, yet worlds apart.
An entanglement that begins in schemes and ends in destiny,
with snow falling over Chang'an and loneliness behind the red walls.
Everyone is trapped in the cage of imperial power,
and in the end, they all suffer the same tragic fate, destroying one another completely.
In their past life, they would not rest until the other was dead. In the next, may every year pass in peace.
