Many years later, someone asked her, “Who are you?”
She said, “I am Yue Ling.”
“No, Yue Ling died a long time ago.”
“She may be dead, but she hasn’t been buried.”
Thirty-year-old Xu Ya sat on the eaves of a house in Changxing, carefully counting the lit windows in the building across the way. “One, two, three...”
A passing swordswoman asked her, “What are you counting?”
Xu Ya said, “The graves of those who were buried with the dead.”
1. An all-female ancient-world setting, in the same world as Spring Dawn, Moonlit Night, but in a different timeline.
2. An unhealthy relationship and an unhappy ending.
Theme: Spend a lifetime climbing a single mountain alone.