2025: The Blood Moon Rises

In the autumn of 2025, just after the Ghost Festival, the land of Huaxia still bore the ashes of offerings and the haze of lingering smoke. A globally watched total lunar eclipse arrived as predicted. Yet the object hanging high in the sky that night was not the expected, splendid bronze-colored moon, but a strange, deep-red moon, as if stained with congealed blood.

This celestial anomaly was not the end, but the beginning.