Fragrant Break

The Moonlit Sand River lies near the Amber Jade Pass, barren and yielding no harvest year after year. Feng Yun’ai journeyed across mountains and rivers, donning a veiled hat that concealed her brows and eyes, claiming to be a descendant of the long-retired Blade-on-Credit Sect. Yet she caught the eye of a sorceress skilled in using gu insects—a woman without a shred of truth in her words, who sought both to entangle her and harm her, for reasons unknown. And as fate would have it, this was Feng Yun’ai’s first time descending the mountain in eighteen years. Unversed in human affairs and ignorant of worldly matters, she was but a blank sheet of paper, effortlessly drowned in the sorceress’s ...