Su Miaoyin, a good-for-nothing from a sect of mystics, has her birth details altered by her stepmother and is forced into marriage with Xiao Hanji, the Prince of Han, who is rumored to have killed eight wives.
On her wedding night, she faces not only a vengeful ghost but also a deadly trap laid by her family’s assassins outside the door, who are waiting for her to die.
Desperate to survive, she bites her fingertip and slaps a forbidden mystic technique onto Xiao Hanji’s forehead, forcing them into a “Life-and-Death Bond.”
The male lead’s innate baleful aura shatters the ghost. Xiao Hanji flies into a rage and tries to strangle her, but Su Miaoyin just smiles and drives a gold hairpin into her own heart. They share pain and fate, so if he wants to kill her, he’ll have to die first.
Using the Prince of Han’s baleful aura to throw her weight around, she frightens off the wicked secondary consort and takes control of her own survival.
But the bond’s price soon comes due: the terrifying baleful aura inside Xiao Hanji begins to ravage her meridians.
If they don’t break the bond, they’ll both be dead within three months. The only artifact capable of undoing it is hidden in the capital’s strangest string of murders.
