For many years, Ai’s life felt like a fairy tale: surrounded by loving sisters and under her mother’s supervision, she knew neither sadness nor worries. But everything shattered in a single moment when an ancient power awakened within Ai. Now she is an enemy to almost all of her family. The only hope is her father—an adviser to the ruler Ye Jian—whom the younger daughter has never even met. She must reach the capital and secure a meeting with the great Rishi. The journey won’t be close or easy, and only Cheng, a silent guard who has protected Ai’s life since childhood, can help her.