The vilest demon in the Book of Fate, a plunderer on the road to the Yellow Springs, an escapee from the Hall of Yama: no one is all of these, yet everyone is. For ten thousand years, she dressed herself in mourning clothes and served as a dutiful butcher, slaughtering every living creature, waking from death again and again. The emperor who had favored her for ten thousand years was courteous and refined, noble yet cold-blooded. His selfishness watered her sins, and his filth brought her despair to fruition. From beginning to end, everyone harbored ulterior motives, and no one exposed them, until they perished in a sea of flames.
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
