In the winter of the twenty-fifth year of Changxin, the beloved daughter of the honored and wealthy Grand Princess traveled all the way to Mingmie City, a dangerous border outpost.
All for the sake of a story told to her by a disgraced minister.
In the story, the people were consumed by overwhelming hatred in a love that stood on a sea of blood and vengeance.
She was not one of the people in the story, but she fell in love with it.
Now she has taken the place of one of them.
Struggling in vain, loving without hope.
Reader's Guide:
1. Old-school tragic ending.
2. First person, with a viewpoint character other than the heroine.
Theme: In life, may we return to one another; in death, may we be forever longing.
