Mirror in the Dust

'''The world is like a vast furnace, with yin and yang as its charcoal, humanity as the bronze, and the Dao as the flames. Some preach the Dao like carrying firewood to extinguish a blaze, only to end up consumed by the flames—wrong, wrong, wrong. It wasn’t until Gu Fangchen opened his eyes and transmigrated into the world of the game *Mirror in the Dust* that he finally understood the secret hidden within these words. ... That year, the Northern King’s consort was still gentle as water, doting on her son to the point of folly. The eldest princess was cold as frost, her gaze aloof—her smile worth more than gold. The youngest princess was charmingly naive, obsessed with heroic knights a...