In the winter of Year 23 of the Xuandu Kingdom, heavy snow falls from the sky and the land is strewn with starving corpses. Yet the emperor believes the rumors and decides that only sacrificing the demon empress to Heaven can end the natural disaster plaguing the realm. I am bound tightly among the firewood as the so-called sorcerers clatter away, performing their ritual before me. I lift my eyes slightly and see the emperor’s icy face, and Xiao Yuanhe looking smug. “Ha. Lu Jingchuan, do you really think killing me will end the disaster? The Xuandu Kingdom is doomed.” “Set it alight!” Lu Jingchuan commands, and I vanish into the raging flames…
