Cloud-Rising Mountain Village

[This story is entirely fictional]

Lin Yongfu is an orphan from Taohua Village. His parents died in an accident when he was six, and he grew up living with his grandfather.

His grandfather was a yin-yang master who made his living with his words. He was skilled at everything from finding dragon veins and auspicious burial sites to fortune-telling, divination, wedding and funeral rites, and exorcising demons and catching ghosts.

Growing up under his grandfather's influence, Lin Yongfu naturally learned these remarkable skills too.

But because Lin Yongfu was born under an unusual fate, he was forbidden from showing off these “skills” before he turned eighteen.

Still, when he was thirteen, he secretly read the fortune of a pretty older girl who lived next door. Later, while climbing a tree to raid a bird's nest, he fell and became a useless pretty boy in the village.

From then on, he went from being the envy of all the village men to the target of everyone's mockery and bullying.

While his grandfather was still alive, he told him that Taohua Village would one day face a Peach Blossom Calamity, and only Lin Yongfu could save it.

Lin Yongfu never understood what his grandfather meant. After all, what could a useless pretty boy like him possibly do?

But when the village chief gave him a barren patch of land where not even a blade of grass grew, he dug up a bronze vessel from the Spring and Autumn period, filled with fine wine.

Thirsty, he gulped it all down in one go. His vigor returned, and from that moment on, the course of his life changed...