Fallen Silver

“A dull blade and a nag of a horse are all I need to roam the martial world.” No sooner had she said it than she used her dull blade to butcher the nag and feast on it. Jiang Shui, a knife-wielding woman newly arrived in the martial world, is hard to tell apart from a hero or a villain. Short on cash, she takes up killing for hire, with no professional scruples and a habit of picking on easy targets. Rumor has it she is the disciple of a physician and has an obscure connection to the Jiang An Ye family, renowned for forging weapons. She struts through the world carrying the famed twin blades Qing Tan, yet whenever trouble arises, she only draws her own chipped pair. Silver seas pour down and shatter heaven and earth; a thousand mountains no longer resemble the old horizon. Lazy and loath to invite trouble, she says she only wants to make her master’s obsession famous throughout the world, then leave the martial world to its raging, murky tides. But life is unpredictable. The foolish woman, who only wanted to use her twin blades to cut through the river in her way, stumbles into a game meant to determine the fate of the entire world. One move sets everything in motion, and the cruel cries of the red phoenix nearly ensnare her in the poison of love. But how can she draw her blade now? Three autumns pass in the martial world. Qing Tan is broken, and two stone steles each bear a red blossom.