Beishuo thirty-seventh year, winter.
Xie Linzhou, the powerful tutor, picked up a man covered in blood at a hunting ground in the snow. The man had eyes like a wild wolf, was wrapped in a worn-out animal skin, and had wild tattoos on his neck that had not faded - he was Shen Ye, a remnant of the Wuhuan tribe in the north who was considered a "barbarian" by the imperial court.
