On the first day of December, Yukimura Seiichi was admitted to a private room at Kanai General Hospital. Once invincible on the tennis court, the “Child of God” now had to face an uncertain illness and a tennis career forced to a halt.
That same night, a strange light flashed past the hospital-room window. A little girl clutching a guqin appeared out of nowhere in the hospital garden. Cai Wenji had arrived in this unfamiliar world through a temporal disturbance. Frightened and uneasy, she was discovered by a nurse making her rounds and nearly mistaken for a lost child.
Late that night, Yukimura heard music drifting from the garden. It was a melody unlike anything he had ever heard, ethereal and distant, as if it could pierce the heart. Weak as he was, he forced himself up and went to the window, where he saw the little girl shivering beneath a cherry tree.
