Two Thousand Years Immortal, Yet I Couldn’t Protect You

At the end of the Warring States period, Yun Chi, an orphan with the supernatural ability to “see death,” could witness visions of the moment each person died. She trembled after foreseeing the famed general Bai Qi taking his own life, and he took her in instead. Among the Qin army’s cavalry, she met Li Mu, an idealistic young strategist (not the historical general, but a fictional central character). To her horror, she saw that Li Mu would die in a blaze while protecting the people of a city at the final moment of Qin’s unification of the realm. She tried to change his fate, but it was like a mantis trying to stop a chariot. In the end, Li Mu died just as she had foreseen. For the next two thousand years, Yun Chi carried that first memory and its regrets, becoming a lonely observer of history.