A World of Powder and Rouge

As the saying goes in the martial world: A beauty is like a blade, each cut making you older. Young Jun Hengyue has barely entered the martial world when a promise draws him into the century-old conflict between Qiankun Cove and the Taiji Sect. In the Cloud Mound Mountains, he becomes a disciple of the Old Man of Mist Mountain, drinks the nectar of the Black Bees, and learns the Bewildering Steps of the Jade Pivot. At the Dragon-Tiger Gathering, he makes the world tremble with a single battle. But the blade's edge does not always point at an enemy, and a beauty's smile does not always mean love. Su Xian's zither music, Fei Luo's flute, and Dai Yanluo's faint smile all conceal deadly schemes in the deepest reaches of the martial world. His master, Elder Xuanhe, lays his plans in advance, while his dear friend, Gu Hongsheng, entrusts him with his life. When wedding music and the sounds of battle ring out together beside Lake Mochou, Jun Hengyue finally understands: the conflicts of his life began for a beauty, and will end for one too.