Battling the Strange: A Thousand Autumns 2, Longing Through the Flowering Season

My name is Ai Dong.

Everyone else calls me a convict.

Why must sheep huddle inside their pens on the grasslands at night?

Because what lies beyond the fence is no longer just a legend. The danger is real.

Demons, fiends, ghosts, and monsters are no longer creatures from myths.

They lurk in the darkness, watching and waiting.

When humanity lost its kindness and the world turned cruel,

a Heavenly Road that had been closed for a hundred years suddenly descended upon the mortal world. Take eight hundred steps, and you could become a god.

But what awaited the people was not hope. It was even deeper despair.

Once, humanity's nine supreme powers shook heaven and earth.

A century of rise and fall, tangled love and hatred, and schemes on every side finally came to an end.

The old darkness has seized control once more, and a complete upheaval of heaven and earth is at hand.

They all think I'm a discarded pawn, a piece left in reserve.

But they don't know

the players' fates were already part of my game.

From today on, I'll do only three things:

fake a smile, fake courtesy, and pretend... to care about this world.

The day I tear off my disguise, heaven and earth will tremble before me.