The First Tale of the Fantasy Era: The World of the Fantasy Gate

On the night of a grand wedding in Jinling, red candles run like blood!

Gu Tingbai, the new bride of Pei Xu, young master of the Pei family, dies silently on the wedding bed. A sleeve arrow is embedded in her heart. It is neither iron, copper, nor wood. Silver threads in the shape of flowing clouds glimmer faintly along its tail, and it weighs exactly one jin and two liang. Not one of the city's famed craftsmen or veteran constables can identify its origin.

Half a broken arrow, a lifetime of vengeance. Pei Xu steps into the martial world with his sword, following the faint trace of the arrow in search of the truth behind his wife's death.

From the frozen frontier to the shadowy underground, from feuds between sects to secret trails through the black market, he braves danger at every turn. The deeper he investigates, the more he realizes that his wife's murder is only the tip of the iceberg. A web woven over more than a decade is closing in on him, stretching from the martial world to the imperial court.

Whose weapon is the arrow no one recognizes, and whose pawn is it?