The Long Lament Beneath the Ashes

In the Great Sheng Dynasty, in the tenth year of Zhanghe, a divination by the Imperial Astronomical Bureau sealed their fates:

Two sons born beneath twin suns: one would bring peace to the realm, the other would burn the city.

The true heir to the dragon throne was abandoned in a dry well and cast into a death camp on the frontier, where ten years of hell forged him into a blade.

When he returned to the capital, he took command of the Cinder-Cleaving Bureau, empowered to strike first and report later. He did not know that, from the day he was born, he had been the deadliest move on his father's chessboard.

Twins switched at birth, a child swap at the General's residence, a slow-acting poison used to control the Crown Prince, the Shen family's blood feud, and a romance with a physician from Jiangnan...

When every truth is laid bare, the prince who returned from hell must finally face the deadly imperial game his father personally set in motion.