Her master had entrusted her with his only wish for her: to live an ordinary life. But fate pushed her onto the cruelest path to immortality.
When Shen Yichen was six, her master, Xie Qingyan, rescued her from a mountain of corpses and seas of blood. He gave her the name “Yichen” and cherished her like the apple of his eye. For eight years on Spring Mountain, he taught her everything he could, except for immortal arts of killing. Instead, he repeatedly trained her in the skills of escape, concealment, and survival.
“Chen, all I wish for you is a peaceful, ordinary life, filled with joy and safety.”
But on her fourteenth birthday, a torrent of blood shattered all peace. Her master died protecting her. In his final moments, he used his life to seal away all her memories of him and Spring Mountain, leaving only a burning crescent-moon mark on the back of her hand.
She awoke in Qinglan Sect with no memory of the past, but with astonishing talent. She became a disciple of an elder and met her senior fellow disciple Yun Yi, a man as bright and noble as the wind and moon. His swordsmanship and the clouds-and-water patterns that appeared on his robes gave her a devastating sense of familiarity. The seal on her memories quietly began to loosen amid warmth and affection.
Then the seal shattered completely, and the bloody truth came roaring in. At the scene of the assassination years ago, the cloud-pattern embroidery on the enemy's hem matched, with startling precision, the pattern on Yun Yi's swordsmanship robes.
Warmth and murderous intent had come from the same source.
The person she loved might be descended from the enemy who slaughtered her family and killed her benefactor.
As her memories returned, the mark on the back of her hand vanished, taking with it the only proof she had of her past. On this revenge-filled path shrouded in fog and lies, the only thing she could rely on was what her master had painstakingly taught her, the very skills she once thought little of
The art of survival.
And when she finally tore away her enemy's mask of false virtue, she discovered that what her master had spent his whole life trying to protect her from was not only the conflicts of the immortal path, but also a shocking conspiracy involving her origins, one that would engulf all three realms.
2025.11.24
Theme: Don't be a sacrificial offering to save the world. Be the player who breaks the deadlock
