The night Gu Jin was cast out by his family, he knelt before the ancestral hall and burned the family tablets. Firelight flickered across his bloodstained face. He was no traitor, but a pawn his own father had personally pushed into the abyss. Shen Sui, who had coldly watched from the sidelines when Gu Jin was at his most wretched, now stood behind him with a ledger that could bring the entire Gu family crashing down. “You didn’t burn their tablets,” he said. “You burned their lives.” They had once been brothers, sharing a father but not a mother. Now one had been driven from the family, while the other had hidden himself in the shadows. When the truth Gu Jin had bought with his life finally comes to light, Shen Sui at last stops being a silent executioner. He will stand by Gu Jin as they burn the bloodthirsty family to ashes.
