In a world where memories can be tampered with at will, even blood ties can be an elaborate scam.
Shen Yan, the guardian of the Western Region Royal City, has a tear scar on his right arm that predicts danger. When he discovered that this scar was actually connected to the memory of a "brother who never existed," a shocking lie that had lasted for three hundred years gradually surfaced.
The crystal baby deep in the mine, the automatically correcting bronze altar, the ink-colored city emerging on a full moon night... Every clue points to the name that has been erased by history - Shen Yao.
"Brother, if I were more perfect, wouldn't I need to be abandoned?"
"Those warm memories... Why do they bleed when I touch them?"
Why does each of Shen Zhao's clones repeatedly modify the ice puppet design?
What exactly is the drop of "ink" that oozes out of Shanhe Inkstone every month?
Who were the first twins really sealed under the bronze altar?
Intention: Ancient Dan
