On the night when the Gu family was wiped out, the fifteen-year-old Gu Zhaoxue hid in a dry well and survived alone while listening to the tragic death of the whole family.
Three years later, she entered Beijing under a pseudonym and became the most inconspicuous post-mortem envoy of Dali Temple.
On a snowy night in the capital, a headless female corpse was hung on Zhuque Street. The fire mark on the corpse was exactly the same as that of the deceased of the Gu family. Gu Zhaoxue followed the clues, but was gradually involved in the old East Palace case that had been dusty for many years.
Everyone knows that the deposed prince Xiao Zhi is cold-blooded and crazy.
But only Gu Zhaoxue knew that the person who carried her across the bridge on a rainy night, the person who desperately saved her in the sea of fire, was also the person who personally pushed her into the abyss.
She thought she came back for revenge.
Only later did I discover——
It turns out that what really eats people is never the human heart, but the imperial power.
Concept: Power will alienate people, but love and choice can make people become