Ride forth with fate; when the snow melts, spring will return.
In the seventeenth year of Yongchang, a heavy snowfall at Changxin Palace buried Consort Rong's wronged spirit and extinguished the innocence of ten-year-old Prince Chu Zhiyuan.
His mother traded her life for five years of hiding in plain sight. He used those five years to become the most inconspicuous, useless nobody in the imperial palace. Everyone thought he was finished.
But no one knew that under cover of darkness, he wore mediocrity as armor and wielded frailty as a blade, quietly taking up the game his mother had laid out with her life.
The hidden networks of the inner palace, the lethal blades of the martial world, and the frontier troops of the northern border: three forces of old allies crossed a thousand miles to come to his aid.
Murder cases erupted one after another at court, each pointing to altered history and secrets of heaven kept under seal. As he painstakingly pieced together the clues, he finally glimpsed the truth:
Four hundred years ago, the Grand Ancestor sealed it away. Four hundred years later, the Temple Master veiled the heavens.
The empress, the princes, the court officials, and the sinister sect were all pieces on the board. The realm was the board, its people the stakes, and the goal was nothing less than overturning the world.
And Chu Zhiyuan was the only variable in this deadlocked game.
His years in hiding were over. The young man rose from the mire, taking charge of the clues and rallying the loyal and upright...
When the snow melts and spring returns, watch how he breaks the deadlock and turns the tables.
True and objective, strong logical reasoning ability, good writing style