The Lonely Crane's Fate: From Pawn to Player

The one who crawled out of the corpse-strewn wasteland of the Northern Wilds was Zhike, who had already “died.” In her previous life, she was a lowly pawn, discarded in the power games of the Ninth Heaven. Her sworn brother, Donghua, mercilessly cast her aside; Bai Fengjiu, the woman favored by fate, humiliated her in public; and in the end, Bai Zhen's sword took her life, leaving her soul lost in the snow and wind. The agony and hatred etched into her bones, along with the truth behind Bai Fengjiu's so-called “blessing of fate” and the way her family of seven High Gods wielded unchecked power, became the mark of her rebirth. In this life, she would no longer be an orphan for others to manipulate. Her broken body bore the unbearable pain of death, and that pain became her only weapon for glimpsing fate's malice and its pivotal turning points. She saw through the nature of “destiny”: nothing more than a gilded robe woven by powerful forces for their darlings, while she had been born to serve as a foundation to be crushed. Lying low in the darkest corners of the Three Realms, she wielded pain as a blade and made her lack of support her armor. She would tear apart not only her enemies' hypocrisy, but also the divine world's laws, gilded on the outside and rotten within. From struggling to survive to taking control of the game, the solitary crane would stake her life to carve a bloody path through this world where Heaven and Earth were the board and all living beings were its pieces, for herself and for every insignificant soul abandoned by “destiny”! An orphan with no one to rely on? No. Those with no one to rely on have nothing to fear!