In the winter of the twelfth year of Taiping, Xie Yunshu met Shen Yan for the first time.
One is the legitimate daughter of an aristocratic family, secretly running an intelligence network all over the capital; the other is a powerful official from a humble family, who has been in the court for ten years just to investigate an old case. The two tested each other across a rosewood table, but neither one showed his trump card first. But they both recognized the same scent on each other - it was the alertness of the hunter when the prey smelled it before the heavy snow covered the ground.
A wordless travelogue, a closed courtyard, and a road to the north. Twenty years ago, Xie Yunshu's mother and Shen Yan's father each walked the same road, and both died after returning. Twenty years later, their children started again along the same track, going to a place called Wuyidu to find a sentence scraped off the wall.
The road is long and the snow is deep. When the two of them walked side by side, there was a punch's distance between them.
