Lan once had a different name. But after the invasion of the Elantian colonisers, who killed her mother and banned her people\'s magic, she took on a new identity and began living a double life: by day, she scours the city slums in search of artefacts from the past, and by night, she works as a singer in a teahouse. The only thing left of the girl\'s former life is a mysterious mark on her hand that no one but Lan herself can see. Until Zhen appears a practitioner from the legendary Last Kingdom, a bearer of forbidden power. Zhen recognises that Lan has unusual abilities. He has never encountered anything like this before, and the only place where he can hope for help is an ancient school of practitioners, hidden far away among the pine forests in the misty mountains, the only one that survived after the conquest. Lan and Zhen are shrouded in secrets, both those they carefully hide from others and those they have yet to discover about themselves. Chance brought them together, but their fate is yet to be determined. For each carries within them a power capable of both liberating their homeland... and destroying the entire world.