A Red Thread Tied on a Spring Night

Burdened with 870,000 in debt and with her father bedridden and unconscious, Yu Nian takes over the Stardust Dance Troupe. All that remains is a leaky rehearsal studio, half a set of hopelessly tangled accounts, and an orange cat with three legs. Before her father passed, he left her only a red cord knot, saying it had been passed down through four generations of the Yu family and would help her through her hardest times. On a rainy night, the red cord grew warm, and a figure with red silk hanging from his waist stepped out of a faded old poster on the wall. Pei Jinghong, a dancer who made a name for himself in Chang'an during the Kaiyuan era, had guarded the stolen half of Spring Night as he drifted through the world for thirteen hundred years. He survived on the stirrings of people's hearts, offering clues but never answers. To find the complete score, she first had to go west of the city and find the genius the whole world had given up on. She found Jiang Chi in an abandoned factory. Three years ago, a scandal over a supposedly fake jump had brought him crashing down from the heights of fame. Someone had used an ancient method to cripple the tendons in his ankle, and everyone called him a fraud. But Yu Nian knew that deep in his bones lay the purest spirit of dance, along with scars connected to the score-stealing case from a thousand years ago. Thirty days to stage the debut in a broken-down theater. One high-stakes gamble to turn the tables against the odds. The red cord bound a fragment of the score, two generations of buried injustice, and a heart stirred by spring night, waiting a thousand years.