Long Peace in This Year

When Yu Suining was born, the old patriarch happily named her Suining, wishing her peace and joy year after year. But fate seemed determined to play a cruel joke on her.

When she was one, her aunt, Empress Dowager Yu, died, and the Yu family fell from power overnight, forcing the entire family to move to Runan.

When she was five, bandits attacked her family during a New Year's Eve feast. Of the whole clan, only she and her sister survived.

When she was sixteen, her sister, the only person she had left, died unjustly in the empress's place. Yu Suining never even got to see her one last time.

As she was about to leave for the capital, the Medicine Master Valley where she had lived for more than a decade was reduced to ashes in a single night.

Standing atop the pitch-black mountain, she gazed into the distance toward Shangjing. Her clear, delicate eyes grew darker and darker.

“Born of the imperial bloodline, are you?” She gave a soft laugh. Blood trickled from the hand clutching her hairpin. Her voice was cold as frost. “You must understand that blood debts are paid in blood.”