Born an orphan, Luo Muxiao was raised by Shishen. At the age of eight, she went down the mountain with her fellow disciples for five years of training. Along the way, there was Luo Ling'er, the only heir to Elder Shangchi, her teammate; Luo Baiwei, a direct-line grandchild of the Luo family of Shishen; Bai E, from the ordinary Bai family; and the surprising discovery that her maternal uncle was Ming Rufeng of a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners. There was also Luo Xi, a walking encyclopedia, and Jie Ruoren, whose identity was concealed. Yet in the end, Luo Muxiao discovered that she was the ultimate powerhouse.
Over the course of those five years, they came together and parted ways, shared joy and endured sorrow. In the first year, Muxiao met the old master of the Jie family and received a wooden box. The old man told her she could open it on the next full-moon night, when the fog she had been gathering would finally clear... Together, they experienced a haunted university, the still-unresolved life-and-death mystery of Farewell My Concubine, the tomb beneath Suishan, an ancient guqin in the Quan family ancestral hall, the River of the Gods in Yucui Village, and more. During this time, memories of Muxiao’s previous life gradually surfaced. She had been a divine stone that sealed an evil power known as “Nian.” With her memories restored, she naturally had to fulfill the conditions for renewing the seal. But as events unfolded over those five years, the convictions she had held on to slowly began to shift...
Five years later, everyone returned to Shishen. Based on their conduct over the past five years, the elders selected people to take part in an agreement among the great families of the capital: three years later, they would travel to Wuxue Town, the abandoned town where “Nian” had first appeared and where Shishen had found Luo Muxiao. Unexpectedly, after opening the wooden box, Luo Muxiao made her choice. She was not selected to take part in the agreement among the families...
