> In the chaotic age of the Great Jin, a new power takes over the court. Eight corpses are carried into the funeral home: forty bones, twenty years of flesh, and sixteen-year-old wounds. Yan Shuo presses a fingertip to them: every one is alive.
He has a pair of hands that can read bones: their age, old injuries, whether they are alive or dead. The Bone-Touching School has four ranks. At the seventh level, you can set bones; at the eighth, replace them; at the ninth, replace the bones of princes and nobles. At the tenth, you can trade someone's fate: take a set of living bones and exchange a person's destiny.
Someone at court is better at using this craft than he is. For sixteen years, that person has been making replacements.
His master said the massacre of his family was the result of a feud in the martial world. But year after year, as Yan Shuo feels his way through the evidence, the hand behind it grows more powerful: from the martial world to the princely estates, then to the Eastern Palace.
On the night he broke through to the tenth level, a female assassin who knew his family's sword style cut him off with one stroke.
For sixteen years, he has examined his master's bones and still cannot tell what they reveal.
He doesn't just want to change his own fate. Starting over with the hands of a first-rank novice, he will keep feeling his way forward until he finds the one who is changing the fate of the realm.
