Ancient Chinese legends tell of the beautiful Empress Xiao Lin, who committed suicide on the day she saw the first wrinkle on her face. These same legends claim that the empress possessed an amazing artifact - the Serpent Ring, which kept the secret of eternal life. For many centuries, the Serpent Ring was hunted, but no one managed to find it. Well, who wouldn’t want to forever give up old age, wrinkles, gout and the whims of old age? It is not surprising that in modern St. Petersburg the price for a ring is someone else’s life... And, of course, here too it would not have happened without the amateur detective Nadezhda Lebedeva, who, like any woman, would like to take off a year or two...

The book was previously published under the title “The Empress’s Bracelet.”