Snow Fills the Bow and Blade

Twelve years ago, the Blood River Hall vanished overnight. Gu Changfeng, master of the Lingyun Sword Sect, carried a baby out of the fire, took him in as a disciple, and named him Shen Yan.

At seventeen, a missing escort silver case dragged him down the mountain. In a ruined temple on a snowy night, he met Su Wan from the Medicine King Valley. She gave him her last piece of hardtack. As she handed it over, something made a faint sound inside her sleeve.

From then on, they traveled together, hardly saying a word.

Then every account he uncovered led back to him. His sect reclaimed his token, and he became a wanted man, to be arrested on sight. Only when the two halves of a jade pendant were joined did he learn that he was the orphaned son of the Blood River Hall's leader, and that she was a daughter of the Su family. He would not learn the truth about what the Su family had done fifteen years earlier until he finished copying all forty-one names.

When news came from the mountain, he was counting the forty-first name. He never returned to Tiandu Peak after that.

At the Medicine King Valley, she saved his life, but lost her sight. Her father wanted to trade her for something, and he publicly severed ties with her.

The martial world wants him to become the greatest under heaven, but he would rather save the people who were hunting him just yesterday.

Snow fills the bow and blade. The hand that holds his sword is already crippled, but he keeps walking forward.