This is a story full of suspense and love-hate entanglements.
The story begins in the execution ground. The long street was stained with blood. Ayuan stood quietly in the crowd and witnessed the Shen family being massacred. She felt a bitingly familiar, but also completely unfamiliar. She only remembered that her name was A Yuan, that she lived in Shuijing Lane in the west of the city, and that she had a fiancé, Xie You, who was gentle to her. An intuition deeply rooted in her bones told her that she had forgotten something extremely important and had paid an unimaginable price in exchange for the peace she had now. Deep in the memory, there is only a place where dust has solidified and everything is completely silent.
But the illusion of calm is as thin as cicada wings. A mysterious man named Lu Qi, who claimed to be indebted to the Shen family, quietly appeared. Hidden in the cage of his fiancé Xie Wei was an iron plate symbolizing the "Yunfeng Supervision Department", the empire's most secret investigative agency. Clues are like a dark river, leading her to an old case of family extermination ten years ago, as well as an even more elusive and shocking legend - the pawn.
When she personally dug out the bones that matched her own face in the mass grave, Xie Wei finally revealed the cruel truth to her: she had died ten years ago. Today, she is an "afterimage" that has pawned the memory of death and stolen the remaining cracks in her life. Under the fog, Xie Wan's identity was also revealed layer by layer. He was both Yunfeng's spy and the holy envoy of the pagan "fire worship". His calm planning and fiery protection were strangely blended in him.
In search of the answer, A Yuan stepped into the dangerous mist-ridden deep valley, and encountered the Black Miao secrets and Zoroastrian cultists' serial pursuit. The birthmark-like mark on her wrist unexpectedly woke up in a desperate situation, showed incredible power, and became the "key" for all parties to compete for. Xie You risked his life for her time and time again, and he did not hesitate to confuse right and wrong and betray his position. His complex and deep emotions could no longer be hidden on the edge of life and death. Behind the murder of the Shen family, it turned out to be the crazy coveting of this "key".
When the thousand-year-old yin fire underground surged violently due to the resonance of the mark, the crisis of swallowing up the sky and the earth suddenly came. Ayuan stood in front of the abyss of choice. On one side was the blood-stained past and unfinished revenge, and on the other side was the man who she had once regarded as her enemy, but who had bet all his tenderness and life on her. Memories can be pawned and lies can be weaved, but what kind of ending will the burning love and hate that spans ten years of life and death lead them to?
Concept: Human nature is complex
