In the winter of the third year of Jingan, the entire Cheng family army was wiped out in the Snow Valley.
Thirteen-year-old Cheng Xu climbed out of the pile of corpses, collected his father's body, and was rescued by the twelve-year-old prince Qi Cong. Overnight, he went from being the son of a general to being a prisoner of the imperial court. The mother left a message in blood - "Don't turn this case over, run away." On the back of the blood book, there is another code that points to the "Qingliu Case" twenty years ago.
Cui Ping wants to kill him, Qi Cong wants to protect him. And a man who had been dead for twenty years was waiting for him in the dark.
Intent: What comes back is not just people, but also truth and choice