In the seven years of peace, the world was in chaos.
The imperial power collapsed, the feudal lords were separatist, and wars raged across the Central Plains. Officers, soldiers, and bandits burned, killed, and looted wantonly. The fertile fields were laid waste, starvation and death were everywhere, and many people were in panic.
Seventeen is the meanest slave in this troubled world. She was taken to a slave camp since she was a child. Here, the value of slaves is far less precious than livestock.
The iron chain tightened around her neck, and her skin became ulcerated and scabbed; whip marks covered her back, old and new intertwined, this was the price of her resistance.
People in the same camp advised her: Don't resist. In these troubled times, living is a gift.
Shi Qi thinks it's funny, if you're alive today, what about tomorrow? The so-called "living" is just lingering on, being slaughtered by others, breaking the spine alive, and tearing the dignity to pieces.
She had seen slaves in the same camp beaten to death in the drying yard just for taking one more bite of moldy bread;
She has seen young girls cry until their throats bleed when being dragged away by buyers. In the end, they only said: Throw them away when you are tired of playing with them;
She had even seen how her parents were cut in half by the swords of the rebels.
So she insisted on resisting, even if it cost her blood.
That night, flames shot into the sky. The fire burned away all the sin, blood, and the cannibal slave camp.
She walked out of the fire and gave herself a new name: Song Jin.
Since the heaven and earth are unkind and regard all things as stupid dogs, then she will burn out all the injustice in this world. She will tear a hole in this troubled world so that all those who are stuck in the quagmire can use this light to climb out!
Intention: only by resistance can there be hope
