"ENVY OF THE FROZEN MOON"

World: Joseon Korea, choking beneath a bleeding moon. The Jade Order (celestial bureaucrats) and Shadowclaw Consortium (hedonistic revolutionaries) vie for control of sentient haetae statues—guardians whose screams foreshadow apocalypse. Silk Sorrow’s pleasure district festers between them, trading secrets for survival.

The Catalyst: Banished magistrate Min Asang (Haikuan Liu) prophesies doom: statues weep black tears, the Crown Prince bleeds out, and a frost-plague consumes the capital. Hunted by Shadowclaw’s Divine Queen for his eyes and tormented by his former master Lord Dong, he scribbles truths that rot his body. Enter Wen Jeon (Yu Bin)—a mute Shadowclaw enforcer whose pain-siphoning touch could kill or cure. Bound by scars and a dead lover’s ghost, they collide in Silk Sorrow’s pyroclastic haze, where every choice spreads fire or ice.

Will they shatter the ritual— or become its fuel?