The Face Reader Loves Peach Blossoms

Back then, the brothers Wang Hai and Ji Fan both studied their craft under the same master. When war engulfed their school, their master gave his life to protect the main volume. With his dying breath, he told them to do their utmost to recover all the scattered pages and never use the notebook's sinister passages to harm anyone. But Ji Fan was consumed by the notebook's deadly formations and secret arts. In the chaos, he stole the only small stack of surviving drafts from the second volume. For decades afterward, Ji Fan searched and seized pages wherever he could, hoping to piece together the complete book and use it to satisfy his own desires. Wang Hai, meanwhile, avoided trouble while secretly searching for the pages. But age was catching up with him, and his progress was painfully slow. In the end, he passed this weighty legacy on to his apprentice, Li Jian. His disappointing apprentice, Li Jian, cared only for wine and women, and recovering the scattered manuscript remained a distant hope.