Paradise Cove: The Corpse-Born Child

In the final years of the Late Tang, famine ravaged the land. After the old case at Jingye Temple ended in ruin, Blackwind Stronghold still clung to survival deep in the mountains.

Abandoned in a world torn by chaos as a child, A He survived by pretending to be deaf and mute. She grew up scrubbing bones, and among the heaps of the dead, she learned who she was: the woman known to the world as the "Qinling Wild Ghost" was the mother she had never met. A promise broken long ago had destroyed a woman's life. Years later, the debt finally fell to her daughter.

Is the compassion of Buddhism real or false? What gives rise to evil spirits? At its root, what turns people into something else in times of chaos: hunger, or the human heart?

From birth in a ruined temple to the burning of Blackwind Stronghold; from a mute girl in a year of famine to a woman wielding a blade; from the fateful entanglement of two generations of mother and daughter to one final dream in Peach Blossom Valley.

A portrait of the people of the Late Tang, and a story of famine, faith, maternal love, redemption, and reincarnation.