On the day the enemy nation massacres an entire city, Shen Zhao carries the enemy general’s head, blood staining the palace gates as he tolls the death knell of Great Wei’s imperial power. He was once the son of a loyal minister. Now he is a demon of vengeance. Pei Yan, confidant of the new emperor, is ordered to capture him, but among the case files of the massacre, he discovers his mother’s final words: the massacre was a trap laid by the imperial family. Liu Wuyi, the orphaned daughter of an imperial physician, secretly delivers poison. Xie Changfeng, Minister of War, stands silent as a monument. The second prince, Jiang Zhaoyang, waits for his chance, while Bai Shuang, a female scout from the enemy nation, approaches the imperial capital bearing a blood-veined jade seal. They are no saviors, but shattered souls crushed beneath power, now fighting back with their dying breaths.
