He is Chu Chen, the Ninth Prince of the Great Yan Dynasty, abandoned among the common folk. He is also the illegitimate son of the princess of the Golden Wolf Tribe of the Great Desert. Bearing the only Dual Emperor Peak bloodline in the lower realm, he should have been able to dominate his age, but instead he became a pawn in the grand scheme laid by his grandfather, the Dragon Ancestor.
A single tear of severed affection is both his weapon against his foes and the shackle that binds his heart. When he feels love, tears fall; when tears fall, karma strikes back. He is separated from his beloved, Su Qingyao, by only a short distance, yet they are worlds apart. Every meeting ends in parting, and every approach brings death.
“Severed affection does not mean having no feelings. A falling tear is the price of karma.” He longs to use this power to break the deadlock, yet despises how it crushes the love in his heart.
Blinding himself is his fiercest defiance of fate. In despair, he comprehends the Left-Handed Heartwashing Palm of the River of Forgetfulness. One strike washes away an opponent’s past and turns them into a puppet. Amid the mortal world, he tempers the Right-Handed Heart-Refining Seal of the Red Dust. Each seal unleashes the myriad trials of love, bringing all who witness them to enlightenment or madness.
His left hand forgets, his right hand remembers. One palm severs worldly bonds; one seal refines the true heart.
When a pawn takes up both palms, wielding love as a blade and pain as armor, can he cleave through the grand scheme his grandfather laid out, carry the warmth of his beloved, shatter the Nine Heavens, and ascend to a life of freedom?
“Only those who love can roam freely between heaven and earth. I will change this fate myself, and walk this path with love!”
