Moonlit Shadows of the Yin Ruins: The Legend of Wu Ding and the Nine-Tailed Fox

A chance encounter, a bond spanning eight hundred years; a nine-tailed fox's deep love, and a legend that changed the fate of the Shang Dynasty

1250 BC, the Shang Dynasty.

The young King Wu Ding had only recently ascended the throne. A months-long drought, a turbulent court, and troubles both within and beyond the realm beset the kingdom. Though he cared deeply for his people, this king was constrained by the old aristocracy. One night, he walked alone toward the foot of Mount Taihang, unaware that fate was preparing an encounter across time.

Qiu Yingying was a nine-tailed fox who had cultivated for a thousand years, the last royal bloodline of Qingqiu. For eight hundred and thirty-seven years, every full-moon night, she had waited beside the same lake for the Xia Dynasty king who had once promised, "When peace returns to the land, I will come back." As the years passed, the promise faded into emptiness, until she met Wu Ding, the Shang king who bore an astonishing resemblance to the man she had lost.