Half a Snowflake

On a snowy cliff in the Northern Lands, Snow Listening Tower was wiped out overnight. In the cold palace of Nanzhao, a young boy planted snow in the sixth month.

At twelve, the orphan Xue Wugou, bearing half a snowflake-shaped birthmark at her throat, fled with her unfinished vengeance. At fourteen, the hostage Xie Changyan hid a sword within his frail body, fed himself to the snow, and waited for the day he could return north.

The Snow Demon awakens, and bloody storms engulf the martial world, the imperial court, and the immortal sects. The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion sets its pieces in motion, while the fates of all living beings have long since been written into a fragmentary score.

She loses her five senses; he wields twin blades. Together they brave the Snow Tomb, the Spring Lanterns, and Plum Blossom Manor.

She seeks revenge; he wants to open Heaven’s Gate. Yet in the prophecy of the “half snowflake,” they become cause and consequence to each other.

When snow falls without a sound, those who listen for it die.

When snow melts in tears, what was left unfinished may yet be made whole.

This is a legend of brokenness and redemption:

Snow will melt, hatred will grow old, but that half snowflake, still warm, will hang forever in the heart.