In the wasteland where the black star fell, Zhaoque woke up with an unexploded cannonball hanging above his head, and in his ears was a spell intertwined with the lover's whisper and the enemy's horn. He is a stateless messenger whose mission is to deliver a love letter that can never be delivered to a missing female general. The storm of war is like a misplaced dance, with soldiers wearing armor made of paper and lovers exchanging each other's shadows among the ruins. Zhaoque longed to find himself in the chaos, but gradually discovered that he was just a prop in an absurd drama - the thread of fate led him into a deeper maze. The novel uses a distorted reality as the background to describe how love and war devour each other, and how Zhaoque struggles to reorganize his faith and identity in an absurd world. Every conflict is like a comic sacrifice, where emotion and violence are entangled with each other. Zhaoque's choice will ultimately determine the outcome of this absurd fate.
