A literary historical-fantasy novel set amid the fall and renewal of Great Yong. After the disastrous defeat and death of Jinghai Prince Cui Baye, his daughter Cui Ling enters a world of court intrigue, military crisis, hidden evidence, family revenge, imperial succession, and forbidden tenderness. Her bond with Xiao Zhuo develops through banquets, interrogations, poisoned arrows, public trials, war councils, imperial edicts, accession, and a great wedding that marks the beginning of a new era. Blending dynastic politics, romance, military strategy, and literary fantasy, the novel asks whether memory, justice, and love can reshape an age built on silence and sacrifice.