Wei Yingluo reborn for vengeance, she is a ghost in her own skin, navigating the treacherous court with a chilling smile as she dismantles the lives of those who betrayed her. But in the palace's forgotten corners, she meets another outcast the "crippled" Crown Prince, a man who sees the storm behind her eyes and recognizes it as his own. A forbidden connection, whispered under the moon's cold eye, begins to bloom. This new love is a dangerous warmth, a beautiful and terrifying prison that threatens to melt the icy hatred that fuels her, forcing her to question what she truly wants: retribution for the dead, or a future with the living.

The dawn after Concubine Shu's arrest broke cold and grey, a sky the color of washed-out ash. A strange quiet had fallen over the Forbidden City, a quiet that was more menacing than the previous fearful whispers. The ghost now had a name. The demon now had a face. And in the face of Concubine Shu, the courtiers and concubines saw not a sorceress, but a mirror of their own vulnerability. If a woman of noble birth, favored in the past, could be dragged from her home and ruined on a whisper, then no one was safe.


Chapter 78 - Chapter 78: The Stone in the Heart (心中的石头)