Signed with Dian Niang. I'll mark it complete once I've uploaded the rest, then. =-= (Not sure if anyone here is following it.)
Gentle daylight pierced layer upon layer of clouds that had long refused to disperse. After a generation of outstanding heroes passed away, the troubled times came to an end, like a winter snake frozen stiff.
Zhenzhou welcomed a snowfall the likes of which came only once in a millennium, offering one final song of praise to an age that had produced hero after hero. The story begins with a contest between humankind and fate. No one could tell whether they had won or lost. They only knew that all the ordinary moments they'd missed along the way, once they had each gone their separate ways, returned to them again and again, each memory carrying the helplessness of mountains collapsing.
Every hatred will eventually be reconciled after the erosion of time. The people in this story watched plants wither and bloom year after year, and dynasties rise and fall one after another. The hatred that once cut to the bone was nothing in the end. The bonds between comrades, with little to do with romance, could be drenched in blood, trampled into the dust, and crushed by the merciless laws of Heaven until all hope was lost, yet years later, the thought of them could still set one's blood ablaze.
So it is with mortal hearts, and so it is with the gods.
Content warning: includes a same-sex couple (not the main plot).
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Let yourself have a ranking, because you don't know where to use the money. (=L= )!