Northern Crane Guidao

The snowy night of the twelfth year of Cheng'an was filled with the strong smell of burnt oil. Seven-year-old Pei Yuechen huddled at the bottom of a dry well, with half a page worth of gold stuck between his fingers. It was what his mother had stuffed into his palm before she was pinned down by the beam. The yellowed pages were soaked with blood, making the words "Women's Stroke and Poison" look particularly hideous. The cold wind howled, and Pei Yuechen shivered. Above the wellhead, flames shot into the sky, and screams came one after another. He closed his eyes tightly, trying to escape this terrible reality, but he could not erase the last image of his mother from his mind. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.