The Qin Kingdom unifies the Six States. The world seems at peace, but danger still lurks in the shadows.
The year the Mohist Mechanism City fell, Gao Yuening lost her father and her older sister.
Everyone knows that the late Crown Prince Dan of Yan had two daughters with identical faces. The elder sister, Gao Yue, was gentle and clever. The younger, Gao Yuening, was bright and headstrong. The sisters had been inseparable since childhood, and thought that even if their kingdom fell and their family was destroyed, they would at least still have each other.
Until the Yin-Yang School took Gao Yue away.
Until she met Xinghun.
A young man who held the post of Left Protector of the Yin-Yang School, he had already been made an Imperial Guardian alongside the Moon Goddess at an astonishingly young age. He was handsome and refined, yet cold and capricious. He treated human life as nothing and took particular pleasure in playing with other people's struggles and fates as if they were in the palm of his hand.
At first, he was merely curious about her.
Later, he discovered that the girl who looked just like Gao Yue seemed to hold something else worth investigating.
So came the tests, the confinement, the mind reading, each step carefully planned.
He knew it would hurt, yet still chose to pry open her memories with his own hands.
And in the long years of enmity and entanglement, she was the one who fell first.
Until the sealed memories began to surface, piece by piece.
Would the young man who was so used to controlling the game one day become a pawn himself?
A thousand miles of stars, yet no light upon the road behind.
If fate means to sacrifice me, then I will ask it: Why?
I've started a sister novel next door, The Legend of Qin: Dreaming Across the Starry River, with 2-3 updates a day~ It's also about the Soul Palace. It's sweeter than this one and an easier read, so you can turn your brain off. Expected to wrap up at around 700,000 words.
Theme: Xinghun fanfiction
Oh my god, it turned out to be he... I saw the heroine was buried before, and I thought I was dead.
Woohoo, last night it was so sweet that I couldn't stop watching it. Today it's tied and I cried to death again.