About the book: year / When your father is a court shenmi, the only magician not burned in the Empire, life should seem wonderful. The Emperor himself favors your family, choose any path, Qin Kang. Just don't forget that you are the son of the damned. No one will shake your hand, no one will lend a shoulder, and in the basement of your house there are crushed bones and a Shadow that awaits payment for the stolen powers. And you have no weapon against her.