Yuchen's Way Out, Her Dead End

Xie Yuchen took charge of the family at eight. From the moment he took over the troubled Xie family, he grew accustomed to hiding his vulnerabilities beneath pink robes and flashes of steel. He treasured the dying wish his grandfather, Xie Jiuye, had entrusted to him. As his life neared its end, that far-sighted old man had traveled to the Bronze Gate and returned with a mysterious baby girl, saying she would be a benefactor to the Xie family and to him.

The girl grew up by his side, from an innocent child into someone capable of facing the treacherous world shoulder to shoulder with him. Xie Yuchen gradually realized she was no ordinary person, but the embodiment of the Heavenly Dao, the force that governed the order of the world. Yet she alone let down her cold, unyielding rules for him. She accompanied him through tomb passages and their hidden mechanisms, and watched the curtains fall on the opera stage. She became the only light in the dark, merciless years he spent leading the family.

But when disaster struck, she ultimately took a forbidden step to save Xie Yuchen from death, defying the laws of the Heavenly Dao in her very capacity as its embodiment. In Xie Yuchen's arms, her figure faded into a glimmer of light, leaving only a silent farewell.

The escape route Xie Jiuye had laid in place finally worked, but at the cost of a broken heart. Years later, Xie Yuchen still often wears that pink robe stained with the aura of slaughter. Yet no one can understand that the “Understanding Flower” he sings of in his opera is the Heavenly Dao's fatal tribulation, sent to him by fate.