[Post-apocalyptic survival + theater + alien beasts, no romance] [Be sure to read through Chapter 40, where the main story begins] Li Hongchen wears a vermilion opera robe embroidered with intricate golden peonies, its fabric fluttering in the fierce wind.
In the apocalypse, the sky above is an unchanging gray-blue.
As Li Hongchen battles one alien beast after another, his abilities grow stronger. The vermilion robe absorbs his spirit and vitality, and the golden peonies shimmer faintly beneath the gray-blue sky screen. At times, he becomes a righteous warrior, wielding an invisible spear to carve a path through a tide of corpses as vast as an army. At others, he transforms into a sorrowful, graceful opera maiden, whose song of parting can briefly tame the ferocity of savage beasts!
He understands that on the stage of the apocalypse, there is no script. Every entrance is a gamble with death. He must perform every role along the long road from actor to emperor of opera, until he finds the source of the apocalypse and becomes the one and only emperor of opera beneath heaven.
Silverwing Stalkers, Rot-Touchers, Burrowing Worms… countless alien beasts bare their teeth at Li Hongchen.
The sun sets red again and again; white-haired fishermen and woodcutters sit on the riverbank…
