When he was twelve years old, Jiang Xuezhuo stole half a piece of Sophora japonica candy, and the sugar residue spelled out the Seventh Star of the Big Dipper on a bluestone. She didn't know that this was the sweetness of pain given by the stars - for the rest of her life, her locked body would become their memory graveyard.
Jamel Xiao's tiger talisman is intertwined with the hidden patterns of her remaining locks, Ye Jinghong's sword spikes turned into seven longevity locks, and Xie Yunshen's plan wrote "Seven Stars Are Silent" in "Shanhe Policy". They swore an oath to "die together" in Tianji Pavilion, but they gradually fell apart in the whirlpool of nine sons competing for the right to inherit the throne: Xiao Jingyan's body-locking golden thread covered with star patterns, from a lonely minister who "protected the people" to an emperor with a blood-stained crown; Under Jinghong's silver mask, there were hidden all the sword wounds that Mu Qinghuan had sustained with the face-changing Gu; the tip of Qin Zhaolie's spear carved "Gentlemen, move slowly" on the ice wall of Yanhuiguan Pass, but even the corpses were frozen into a star map of a gunpowder magazine.
The star lantern array flickered on and off with a warning of death: the Tianquan lantern exploded into bloody writing, the Tianxuan lantern floated plum fragrance and rust, and the rust spots of the fluctuating light grew in sync with her white hair. When the fire of Xuanwu Gate illuminated Jamel Xiao's dragon robe, and when the gears of the machine city crushed the last oath, Jiang Xuezhuo finally discovered that the so-called star map prophecy was just a script written by the first generation pavilion master with six-star essence.
But she wanted to be the light that went against the grain. Collecting six rusty longevity locks, weaving the white-haired brocade that has exhausted its lifespan, and setting up a seven-star sacrificial array in the snow of Yanhuiguan Pass - the original intention of "protecting the people" that was burned out by history books, and the love and sorrow of the sword and spike crushed by power will all be re-lit into an everlasting solitary light in her lock body.
"Sister Jinghong, Brother Jingyan, Brother Zhaolie... Look, the stars are still shining."
Intention: Using pain as light, the seven-star bond rewrites the destiny of the star chart.