The night when Empress Shen Zhaoning blew up the imperial mausoleum, he was killed in a sea of fire, but his soul was reborn. When she opened her eyes, she went back to the seven days before she was deposed - this time, she didn't ask for forgiveness, only for destruction. Emperor Xiao Chengjing discovers that the ground of the imperial mausoleum has changed, and the undercurrent is surging in the court. Liu Rumei, the female official who betrayed her, Pei Yanqiu who hides troops in the northern border, and Wen Wanyi, the queen who controls witchcraft, are not pawns, but hunters fighting for each other. When the sky-burning flames intertwine with the blood curse, who is the true successor to the imperial power?
After Shen Zhaoning was reborn, he used the remnants of the bombing of the mausoleum to secretly instigate rebellion against the old army, disrupting the imperial court in the name of "Ghost Shadow", and forcing Xiao Chengjing to face the truth about the human sacrifice buried under the imperial mausoleum. Liu Rumei surrendered with the imperial edict, but when she handed over the copy, she was poisoned and was on the verge of death. On her deathbed, she revealed that Wen Wanyi had colluded with the shaman tribe in southern Xinjiang and wanted to use the royal blood to open the 'Altar of Immortality'. Pei Yanqiu led his army to besiege the imperial city, ostensibly to suppress bandits, but in reality he was recovering military symbols from the previous dynasty. His true life experience was actually related to Shen Zhaoning's mother clan. Xuanjizi triggered the Yin-Yang Lock deep in the underground palace to awaken the sleeping emperor's spirit, and Xiao Chengjing's curse intensified every night - he was actually the only surviving prince in the living sacrifice that year. When Shen Zhaoning finally stood on the ruins of the imperial mausoleum with the military talisman in hand, she realized that bombing the mausoleum was not the end, but the starting point for restarting the cannibal dynasty. Changes in imperial power, blood curses, and witchcraft conspiracies are nested layer by layer. Every step of revenge affects another gear of destiny.
