Drunk on the Beauty of Mountains and Rivers

He became the leader of the righteous path. She fell into darkness and became a demon. The whole world longs for her death. He alone waits for her to look back, to gaze once at the mountains and rivers, and once at him. The Mountain and River Scroll was the treasured heirloom of the Long Clan, the ruling family at the peak of Guiyuan. It was passed down and protected by the Long family, and ranked first among the four Origin Scrolls. In the first year of the era, Long Zhengtian, the clan’s fifty-sixth patriarch, was in charge when the family was massacred. The Mountain and River Scroll vanished, along with the whereabouts of Long Zhengtian’s daughter by his wife, Chen Yuan. More than three thousand disciples were slaughtered as well. For a time, rivers ran red with blood. The world was horrified, yet no one could uncover the truth. Several years later, the powers of the realm split into four factions, with the Gu family of Yangdu at their head. The orphan Lan Xu emerged from seclusion, beginning a fraught journey of love and conflict with Gu Wusu, the unruly son of the Gu family of Yangdu.