In a realm where fate is written in ink and sealed in mirrors, a frost-born dragoness walks the path of wu wei—acting without seeking, living without ambition. She is Shuangli Shi Lenghua, daughter of the Stone House, born of ice, silence, and peerless spellcraft. Respected, distant, untouched by the court's games.
Until the snow gives her a child.
A dying human girl left in the mountains awakens something deeper than duty: a love so profound it rewrites fate itself. Through blood and forbidden ritual, Shuangli gives the child a name—and in doing so, binds their fates together.
But in the shadowed halls of the imperial court, love is weakness. And even a dragon's blood cannot protect what others seek to control.
When the thread of her world is cut, Shuangli is given what no dragon should ever receive: a second chance.
Now, reborn into the moment before everything changed, she walks the quiet path once more—not to change fate, but to meet it with open eyes, and the wrath of a mother who will not lose her child again.