The Life Heaven Decreed

The story is tentatively divided into three parts. [A World of Beauty] is a collection of short stories about the love between two people. [The Solitary Willow Among a Thousand Mountains] is a battle for revenge sparked by the death of the world's most beautiful woman. [I Decide My Own Fate] tells how people who defy heaven change the world. The story takes place a thousand years ago, in a world without television or skyscrapers, where all there was were wars and strife. Most of the conflict stems from the Hong people in the north and the Ning people in the south. The Hong people were originally a northern minority, but they were brave and skilled in battle. The Long people, who excelled at forging weapons, made them a vast array of divine arms, making them nearly invincible. The Ning people were the largest ethnic group in China. After the Hong people seized half their territory, many talented and capable people emerged among them, gradually stabilizing the situation. In the end, the two peoples maintained a superficial peace through repeated peace treaties and mutual territorial invasions, yet the fighting never stopped... The four stories can be read separately. The first part is about love, the second about martial arts, and the third about war. The age system is as follows: ordinary people begin to decline at forty and die at fifty. Multiply ages by 1.5 to compare them with modern ages. In the story, fourteen is roughly equivalent to twenty today, eighteen to twenty-seven, twenty-five to thirty-eight, forty to sixty, and sixty to ninety.