Fate I: The Key of Sorrow

When I was seven,

my mother told me:

The Cang Mountains held another world.

When I was eleven,

she vanished and died under mysterious circumstances.

The bloodstained scene left no clues,

only a silver Porsche that looked as if it had been cut apart by a chainsaw...

That year, autumn was deep, flowers withered and leaves fell.

That year, the wind stirred white robes, cold as snow.

Endless despair, countless sorrows,

drove me into a bottomless, pitch-black vortex...

I cast away everything in this world.

My slender right hand gripped tightly the sword

that could change fate, sever the cycle of reincarnation,

and lead me into another world spoken of in legends!

From then on,

I hunted ghosts, destroyed demons,

slaughtered monsters, and drove out evil spirits.

Corpses covered the fields, rivers ran red with blood.

But in the end, I discovered

that I could sever everything in this world,

yet still could not break the bonds of fate.

Thirteen people cursed by fate

still...

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.