Phoenix Ashes, Clashing Spears

Under the seemingly calm surface of the Great Jing Dynasty, dark currents surge. The military Shen family is destroyed overnight, leaving only Shen Shujiang, the surviving daughter, to hide her identity and bide her time in the cracks of the jianghu. Lu Jingshuo, once a gentle noble heir, is trapped in the vortex of the struggle for the throne, maneuvering step by step and stirring up storms in the court. A chance encounter brings these two people, each carrying a past drenched in blood, into a wary dance of testing and pulling. Court power struggles are rife with deadly traps, jianghu grudges follow one after another, and the great causes of family and country collide with bone-deep love. He holds power and is full of schemes; she conceals all her sharpness and waits for revenge. Are they blades for each other, or each other's salvation? In a chaotic world, love and hate, choices and decisions, are all stained with the slaughter of war. — Description from novelcodex.org