Looking North: The Winds Rise

Who could have imagined that a single game of murder mystery role-play would shape the turbulent court of the Great Wei dynasty sixteen hundred years ago? The imperial power had fallen into other hands, half the realm had been reduced to scorched earth, and the empire was on the brink of collapse, with millions of commoners facing destruction. Yet the one who could save them was an unforeseen refugee. Who would believe that?

He didn’t believe it himself. Who knew whether this was just a murder mystery game, a dream, or perhaps a parallel world? The crossing of sixteen hundred years of time brought him neither a golden finger that let him take whatever he wanted nor a System ready to chime in and save him at any moment. All he had was an endless bond with another world.

He thought he loved the twenty-year-old her, but the one she loved might be her from sixteen hundred years ago. He had to face a carefully laid web of interlocking traps, while holding back the urge to pull her into his arms.

If you can’t find what you seek in reality, look for it in a dream. But he never expected that the debts owed in reality would have to be repaid double in his dreams.