As a descendant of the Pei clan's fireworkers, Pei Ye is sent to the black market under a debt contract and sold as a cultivation furnace to the immortal Jiang Zhaoxue, who suffers from the backlash of a frigid flame. Everyone thinks it's just a transaction, but during their first pact, Pei Ye wrests back a strand of the frigid flame and forces Jiang Zhaoxue to rewrite the contract, spelling out ownership, freedom of movement, and payment. Poisoned medicine, forged contracts, and missing fireworkers soon drag them into the same bloodline-based industry. Jiang Zhaoxue wants to survive and escape the sect and the Ji family's control over her medicine supply. Pei Ye wants to find his clanspeople, but has no right to decide for anyone whether they leave or stay. The buyer and the merchandise become deeply unstable partners. Every step forward forces them to renegotiate who has a claim to their bodies, their power, their debts, and their freedom.
