The Kunpeng Returns to the Clouds

April 1878, the fourth year of the Guangxu reign. A severe drought grips North China, and millions die of starvation.

A girl from the Wuqi clan arrives in the Central Plains with a Kun, helping the Jiang family through their troubles in Qingzhou. She is given the name Jiang Duo. That same year, Jiang Duo is shot dead and buried on North Mountain.

120 years later, on a rainy summer night in 1998, a baby girl emerges from the earth on North Mountain.