Sword Shadows Startling Like a Swan, Severing Love and Sorrow

Young Xiao Linyuan falls in love with Su Yingxue, the daughter of a prestigious family, but she betrays him on the day of their engagement. In order to attach herself to the powerful, Su Yingxue not only humiliates Xiao Linyuan in public but also conspires with villains to frame the Xiao family, leaving them wrongfully condemned and destroyed. Gravely wounded, Xiao Linyuan falls from a cliff and is saved by a mysterious master known as the Bloodhand Medical Immortal. Under the immortal's tutelage, Xiao Linyuan recovers while cultivating the long-lost Nine Tribulations Shocking Swan Art, and studies the mysterious arts of mechanisms and poison medicine.

Five years later, Xiao Linyuan returns to the Central Plains in the guise of the mysterious Ghost-Faced Stranger. With peerless martial arts and extraordinary strategic insight, he sets off a storm across the martial world. Working from the shadows, he plots to settle accounts one by one with those who framed the Xiao family. By then, Su Yingxue has gone mad from cultivating an evil art, her hair turning white overnight, and is desperately searching everywhere for an antidote. When she learns that the only person who can save her is Xiao Linyuan, whose life she destroyed with her own hands, a tale of tangled love and hatred, political intrigue, and old grievances begins to unfold. Faced with both the love he once cherished and a blood feud, what choice will Xiao Linyuan make?