The Scorpion's Shadow on the Road to the Ends of the Earth

A palace coup left him without his parents and took from him the throne that should have been his. A conspiracy forced him to change his name and hide beneath another's roof, struggling to survive.

She is the daughter of a renowned general and has been the childhood companion of two men.

Lazy by nature, she is only "passable" at martial arts, yet skilled with poison, as sly and nimble as a demon.

With a thousand-year-old talking venomous scorpion at her side, she roams freely between heaven and earth.

Her "single-minded devotion" is worn away amid struggles for power, then stubbornly endures through the long, endless years...

She stakes everything on one last chance, all to protect that most precious feeling, whispered beneath the flowers and held close beneath the moon...