Shen Nian'an, the disowned daughter of the Shen family of the Celestial Secrets Pavilion, is born with the ill-fated Lone Star of Calamity fate. Her own brother drives her out, leaving her to wander the streets on a rainy night.
At seventeen, she awakens a pair of heavenly eyes that can see the threads of fate behind all things.
One divination can determine life and death, one talisman can suppress evil, and one formation of the Eight Trigrams can break through countless traps.
In Longevity Village, the well of the dead never runs dry. A midnight bus travels to a nonexistent final stop. At an abandoned school, no one can ever count to the thirteenth step... One abyssal trial after another, each formed from human fear and obsession, unfolds before her. The uncanny are not ghosts or monsters, but indescribable rules. Brute force cannot solve them: only deductions based on the Eight Characters of birth and the principles of fate can reveal their loopholes.
From an unknown fortune-teller on the street to the renowned leader of the mystic sects across the Nine Provinces, she ventures alone into the ninth layer of the abyss, faces the first uncanny incursion from a thousand years ago, and uncovers the shocking secret of the Celestial Secrets Pavilion's founder.
The Lone Star of Calamity was never a curse. It was a key.
With her life hanging by a thread, she finds a way through the dead end. Is fate decided by Heaven? No. Your destiny is yours to shape.
