Spring Fire, Autumn Rain, Broken Masks

Li Yuan is used to cleaning up messes that other people call fate. He has survived two hundred and thirteen quick mission worlds, and every one taught him the same bitter lesson: if a world keeps producing the same ruined romance, the problem is bigger than one bad choice. In the White Reed School, he makes nuo masks that keep spirits away, and he fixes broken wood with the same careful hands he uses on broken endings. When a powerful request comes for the full mask set that has not been safely worn in three generations, his first reaction is caution. His second is anger, because the only person trusted to judge the set is Shen, the master who left without warning and came back wearing Yuan'...