“A hero is neither god, demon, nor human. A hero is one who still chooses hope in the face of despair.”
Shangguan Que stared at those words, speechless for a long time.
Outside the window, the city's neon lights still flickered, while the sounds of traffic, voices, and music blended into the bustle of modern civilization. But to his ears, those sounds were gradually fading, replaced by something older and more immense: the mountains and seas awakening, myth returning, an old world dying and a new one about to be born... the pain of its birth.
My name is Dongfang Chen. I'm Jiang University's second-ranked campus heartthrob. On my way to a class reunion, I was surrounded and kidnapped by a group of burly men.
They told me about the wonders of living creatures and took me through a rift connecting worlds. When I opened my eyes and could see the world again, God knows what I saw... rivers hanging upside down in the sky, wenyao fish darting wildly across the night, lush trees reaching straight into the clouds, and an unknown creature with a dragon's body and a bird's head bending down to lick my cheek.
I joined them in making this vow: “Even if the mountains and seas return, we will never fail the people! With this oath, let the mountains and seas bear witness; our hearts will never change, until death!”
