On the day she graduates, Lin Shuang’s world falls apart.
Wearing her graduation gown and carrying a graduation gift for her mother, she takes a three-hour bus ride back to the Rose Mercenary Corps. What awaits her is a charred ruin.
All she finds among the wreckage are seven keepsakes and a blood-soaked truth: her family’s fate is unknown.
But she also discovers another truth.
Shen Du, the man she likes, is the son of her enemy.
Did he approach her as part of a deliberate plan?
Did he lie to her to protect her?
What is she supposed to do?
The heir to the Rose Mercenary Corps, a wielder of the power of Words, a girl who treats every sentence like a bullet. She will fight her way through the Ashes Organization, storm the Lingshu Pavilion, and find her mother, her second uncle, and the others. Even if they’re already gone, she’ll bring them home.
“Mom, you said roses should grow toward the sun. But, Mom, you took my sun away from me.”
Still, she keeps going. Step by step, toward Tianshu City.
