A snowstorm, a story from the past, slowly coming into focus.
“Who are you?” he asked in a cool voice.
“You’re nothing special. And now, all you can ask me is whether we’ve met before?” Her smile remained unchanged, but her voice grew colder.
“I am a soul imprisoned beneath the Abyss for a hundred years. I am a spirit trapped beneath the Eighteenth Level, denied salvation day and night. Now I am neither human nor ghost nor demon. And you? The second young master of the Qing Prince’s Residence. How could we possibly have met?”
When they first met, the steady young man was led away by a passionate girl as they escaped the inner courtyard. Together, they went to see a strange and wondrous world:
An orchid demon who could make people grow old, a mountain god who could cook, an old ginseng spirit serving at the mountain god’s shrine, and a water demon with astonishing fighting skills...
They uncover buried memories through their adventures.