"This danmei boys' love novel series originally released in Chinese--and coming to the English
language for the first time--is set in the universe of the author's other popular novel and
animated series Thousand Autumns: Qian Qiu. ... On a snowy night an envoy sent by the Kingdom
of Khotan is ambushed on the road massacred with his escort. Not a living soul remains and
the attackers vanish--along with a precious jade intended as tribute to the Emperor of Sui. A
member of the emperor's secret intelligence agency the Jiejian Bureau pursues the case: the
formidable deputy chief Feng Xiao. His investigation takes him to Liugong City where top
martial artists from across the land gather for a mysterious auction"--