At seven, he was dressed in funeral clothes and marked for death. His adoptive father fought to save him, leaving him alive but half-dead and dependent on a seal to survive. With the eighteen-year tribulation approaching, his father leaves him three final commandments. On his journey north, he encounters a fellow villager beset by evil spirits and ventures into a dangerous place to save her. There, he meets a woman with a red mole between her brows: both the tribulation destined for him and the one who can save him. A door to the truth opens.
