A Life for a Life

My name is Chang Feng, and I apprenticed myself to a tomb raider. Everything he taught me, from locating tombs with geomancy to reading the soil and avoiding traps, was the real deal. He held nothing back. I was grateful from the bottom of my heart, thinking I’d been incredibly lucky to meet someone who genuinely wanted to teach me. It wasn’t until we entered a grand feng shui tomb said to belong to a Tang Dynasty Imperial Preceptor and triggered its final mechanism in the main burial chamber that I finally understood, in the face of certain death. His skills were all genuine, but the real reason he’d found me on a Tieba forum and insisted on taking me as his apprentice had been nothing but a complete lie from beginning to end.