The second volume of the Mirror series. “You were born before I was; I was born when you were already old.” One is a frail former sword saint of the Kong Sang dynasty, the other a fierce, martial young general of the Cangliu Empire. A century of tumultuous time separates them. Their lives should never have intersected, yet fate brings them together unexpectedly as master and disciple. Imprisonment, rescue, apprenticeship, training... At every turning point, his fate is closely bound to hers. Once he has completed his training, the boy leaves the ancient tomb and walks alone into the heart of the capital’s political intrigues, fighting his way forward. Ten years later, now a young general, he returns to that same desert and sees her, unchanged by time in the ancient tomb. Suddenly, memories long sealed away come alive again. His life changes because of her once more. “You were born before I was; I was born when you were already old.” When the desert sands bury everything that came before, what will the general, back in the capital, have left in his heart?
I watched it on Ancient Legends when I was a kid. Such long-lasting memories.
Mountains and rivers are eternally silent, and all living beings suffer.
It's a novel I've read for a long time, and I followed it every night.