The Lone Daughter of the Northern Frontier

Nine years ago, all 103 members of the Prince of Zhenbei's household were executed. She was the sole survivor.

Nine years later, a female physician named Bai Zhi appears in the border city of Linyuan. The martial world calls her the "Ghost Mother": one needle can bring the dead back to life, and another can kill without mercy.

No one knows she is Gu Nanyuan, who crawled out of a sea of flames, carrying the bloodline of a sacred maiden of Nanjiang. For nine years, she has lived under an assumed name with half a piece of jade, all for the sake of returning to the capital and avenging the 103 lives taken from her family.

On the way back to the capital, three men enter the picture, one after another.

One is a frail young gentleman whom she fished out of a freezing river. Gentle and restrained, he is riddled with poison, yet saves the last of his warmth for her.

One is the bewitchingly carefree young lord of Nanjiang. A red thread has tied him to her for eighteen years. He tells her to leave with him, but when she is in danger, he is the first to turn red-eyed.

One is the refined Ninth Young Master, whose power holds sway over the court. He recognizes at a glance the girl he has searched for over nine years, but he lives behind the highest wall of them all. He can protect her, but he cannot keep her.

The whole board is deadly, and every step is a trap. She can cure the illnesses of everyone under heaven, but who can heal the wound left by the fire nine years ago?

The broken jade is made whole, old cases stir anew, and the sacred maiden's return to the altar draws near.

In this life, she will repay blood with blood. And that affection, delayed by nine years, she will take back as well.