Before he turned nine, Song Yingxing was a rootless weed with no father, mother, relatives, or friends, wandering alone and enduring endless grievances and scolding, barely scraping by.
Then, one summer when he was nine, an old man with a white beard pulled him out of a filthy place and showed him the light. At last, he learned that life could be so peaceful: working from sunrise to sunset. The world was so vast. It would be wonderful to live freely and happily. But after his master left a letter behind, he never came back. While searching for his master, Song Yingxing discovered that, unbeknownst to him, his fate had long since been decided...
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"Remember this: you will make it through the lonely, empty nights and climb over houses piled with bones. You will stand beneath the vast, boundless sunlight and watch the dried-up rivers fill again, watch the mountains rise anew. You are an invincible blade, cutting down every enemy, and you will bloom among the flowers."
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Feng He looked at the ring gleaming on her fingertip. At last, she had waited for the one who could return everything to its origin. But as one thing after another unfolded before Feng He, she finally understood what this identity meant to him. A man slowly emerged from a dark corner, a smile on his lips, his gaze cool and the corners of his eyes red. He walked past her without looking back.
Theme: A story about freedom, growth, redemption, and self-redemption.
