Stargazer: Homecoming

The baby picked up in the snow looked at him with his eyes open, neither crying nor fussing. Yu Wang has lived for seventy years and has looked at the stars all his life, but he has never seen eyes like this. He wrapped the child in his arms and named him Ayue. Little did he know, this decision would change everything. Ah Yue has been able to see the dimmest star since she was a child. It hung on the horizon, twinkling, as if waiting for her. Yu Wang taught her how to recognize the stars, how to play Qi, and how to see the joys and sorrows in the world. He taught her for eighteen years, but didn't tell her that he was the ninth "returner". Jiu Yaoming, nine people, use their lives to seal the evil star. He is the last one. People from Si Tianjian came after him, and people from Tianji Pavilion also came. Three parties faced each other on the snowfield, and the aurora danced overhead. Yu Wang stood in the middle, facing the final choice: return to the star, or live? And Ah Yue learned from Xing Po that she was the tenth star. She could die for him. But she didn't want to die, and she didn't want him to die either. That night, Yu Wang sat on the stone and watched the stars with her for the last time. He said: "Everyone dies. But stars don't. When I die, I become that star. When you look at it, you look at me." Ah Yue understood. To live is to protect him. Guarding that star, guarding the starry sky they had seen together, guarding generations of people from the Xingxiu sect who watched the stars. This is a story about living and dying, seeing and being seen. The howling snow in northern Xinjiang, the stone house under the aurora, the Tianchi on the top of Kunlun Mountain, and the two faintest stars that are always next to each other. If you've ever looked up at the sky, you might have seen them - waiting for you.