Jinzhu and Yinzhu are two halves of a single person, utterly attuned to one another's every thought or movement—except that tonight, Yinzhu can't sleep.
Xiao Xingchen left her mountain intending to understand and improve the world. Song Lan left her temple to travel with Xiao Xingchen and pursue their ideals together. Unfortunately, the world held more things in it than either of them was truly prepared for, including Xue Yang and Jin Guangshan.
Lan Yi had a long time to think, while she was trapped in Cold Pond Cave suppressing the Yin Iron: about her relationship with her clan and her sect, about power, and about her lost lover, Baoshan Sanren.
Gabrielle's travels take her to a new continent, but the city she hunts in already belongs to someone else.