The Ultimate Beauty's Tribulation

After enduring calamity across several lifetimes, can they finally stay together until their hair turns white in this one? She is his trial, and he is hers. Which of them is the other's trial? Their bond cannot be severed, yet its tangled knots defy unraveling! Their turmoil engulfs the seven kingdoms of Chizhou and even reaches mysterious lands and realms. The mists are thick, and nothing is quite as it seems! As pure and clear as moonlight, the warmth of a hand in that lifetime could not hold on to the passing years of peerless beauty. Even with a face like jade, how could she contend with the scepter of power held high in the heavens? So much scorn, desire, greed, and loneliness. The past fades; murky tears fall in shimmering drops, staining the layered forests blood-red. Laughter and obsession drift through years as fleeting as snow. After seeking the countless agonies of this mortal world, where can one find a true heart? Excerpt from “The Peerless Beauty's Tribulation,” “A Song of Beauty's Sorrow”