Gilt Edge

Synopsis

The Shen family, renowned master craftsmen for a century, was falsely accused of treason, and the entire family was sentenced to execution.

At the execution ground, Shen Qingci watched as the steel blades her family had forged slaughtered her loved ones. Pierced through the chest by a spear she had forged with her own hands, she died with hatred in her heart.

When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the age of sixteen, just one year before the massacre that would destroy her family.

In this life, she wields a hammer in her hand and keeps a blade in her heart, vowing to repay every debt of blood!

Her uncle schemes to steal the secret formula? She cripples the hand he used for his crimes and cuts off his path to coveting it. The treacherous minister frames loyal officials? She uses weapons as evidence to expose his treason, leaving him disgraced and ruined.

The court mocks her for a woman’s blacksmithing, claiming it violates all propriety? With a single strike of her hammer, she forges steel through a hundred refinements. She improves the Mo Dao to shatter iron cavalry and reforges the Brightlight Armor to protect the three armies. Using her unique expertise in examining military equipment, she cracks a string of connected murder cases and becomes the first woman ever appointed a master craftsman of the state in the history of Great Jing.

Xiao Ce, the cold and taciturn Prince of Jing, is her steadfast shield. He stakes his military authority on her, standing beside her as they purge corrupt officials and defend their homeland. Their devotion is mutual.

With a gold-inlaid blade in her hand, she forges peerless weapons and determines the fate of the realm, creating an enduring legend of a woman who became a master craftsman of the state.