The Kaiyuan Conspiracy

In the 27th year of Kaiyuan, Shanzhou starves because its Prefect refuses to repay borrowed grain. A desperate teenager, Li Siye, ventures into the Ghost Market and accidentally accesses the “Formless Ruin” — an ancient darknet woven into the Silk Road’s caravans, cipher pigeons, and Sogdian merchants. There, he witnesses a contract killing ordered against the very villagers suing the Prefect. Hunted by a global guild of assassins, Li must master the Tang Code, turn the gray zone between law and justice into his weapon, and confront a truth: the forgotten ghosts of the unjust can never truly rest.