The Sword with Red Makeup Illuminates the Mountains and Rivers

In the autumn of the twenty-seventh year of Yongchang, 307 people in the Duke's Mansion were blood-stained. Only the legitimate daughter Shen Jinwei was stuffed into a wooden barrel for transporting swill by a secret guard and escaped. Ten years later, Chang'an City's most prestigious Red Sleeve Pavilion welcomed a new oiran, Chao Yan. She walked down Zhuque Street in a crimson crocodile gauze skirt. Hidden behind a gold silk curtain was an appearance that was very similar to that of the then Crown Princess Shen. The world only saw her messing up the court's chess game with her jade finger: she forced the enemy's son to death through satire and admonishment at the poetry meeting, used the witchcraft case to drive a wedge between the Eastern Palace and the Prime Minister's Palace, and even stabbed the poison-tempered silver hairpin into the brow of the Minister of War. But no one knew that the Phoenix Weeping Blood Gu snaking around her spine would torture people until they vomited out half a bowl of blood every full moon. When the Nine Layers Palace burst into flames, Shen Jin stepped on her enemy's back and shattered the phoenix crown, but she held half a dragon-patterned jade pendant soaked in old blood in her hand - the young man in black clothes who pushed open the door to hell for her that night was actually the executioner who slaughtered her entire family. Taking mountains and rivers as a guide, she used white bones as rouge, and finally let the entire dynasty hear the death knell of the Zhenguo Palace that had been delayed for ten years.