A dream of Jinling City; all of Southern Liang lies empty. (Also known as: The Azure Jade Terrace, The Azure Jade Terrace Mystery)
Flames reached into the sky, and the Yaotai Hall stood in ruins. Only one year old, she was bundled in swaddling clothes and carried over the rooftops. As the firelight faded into the distance, she became the fallen princess of Southern Liang.
When she opened her eyes again, she had been brought to the Valley of Laughing Orchids, where spring lasted all year. Her eyes fell on spring flowers everywhere... and all sorts of young men and women.
Eighteen years passed in the blink of an eye, and she returned to Jinling City.
The old Yaotai Hall had become the House of Beauties.
She, Lan Jiuxiao, was a famous bounty hunter in the martial world, as well as one of the beauties who danced to entertain the rich and powerful at the House of Beauties.
"I've heard that the disciples of the Valley of Laughing Orchids are refined and worldly, and that every one of them, man or woman, is learned and a master of etiquette," one of her sisters at the House of Beauties told her enviously.
She smiled but said nothing. How could an outsider see the countless white bones buried beneath the valley's lavish spring flowers?
Beauty's bones, villain's skin, the Butterfly Grave...
After eighteen years of calm, Jinling City was suddenly swept up in turmoil, and murders began happening one after another.
Lan Jiuxiao, a pawn in someone else's hands for eighteen years, was drawn into it against her will.
But no one knew that she had always remembered who she was: her surname was Liang, her given name Qingyao, and the world had called her Little Princess Qingyao.
Theme: Become strong enough to choose your own path.
