Gathering Ashes from the Ruins

In the twenty-third year of Jinghe's reign, the fire in Luojing lasted for three days. In the 217th year of Dayu, the sky collapsed. He stayed in the farthest corner of the empire, like a chess piece blown into a crack in the wall by the wind. Until that winter, he woke up from a typhoid fever, and a soul that did not belong to this era lived in his mind. Then he stood up and walked back from the ruins.