The Red Bird Chronicles

Perhaps the winter had been too warm. Ying Qingqing accidentally slept in, and when she woke, she instinctively nudged the space beside her, only to find: The little brat her mother had saddled her with was gone! Ying Qingqing sought out a monster skilled in divination to track him down. The spot it pointed to was, unbelievably, at the foot of the mountain! What was at the foot of the mountain? She had been there before. The people there... those people ate birds like them... It was such a dangerous place. But as a bird demon who protected her young, even if the little brat wasn't hers, she couldn't just leave him to be bullied! So Ying Qingqing flapped her wings. A few feathers drifted down among the mountains as she headed for the foot of the mountain...