Deep in the desert, a towering giant tree, bronze and coral growing together, stands beneath a stone stele newly carved with the words:
"The three Shang sisters and the daughter of the Su family sleep here, forever guarding the land."
By the time you sank to the riverbed, your body had completely turned to jade. Three hundred jade pendants carved with phoenix patterns encircled you, each reflecting a bloodstained secret: your mother's tears and blood, the Shang sisters' sacrifice, the tiger tally hidden by the late emperor in an infant's swaddling clothes...
