A world only became complete once it had dragons.
In the dark, silent, mysterious void, the slender girl with dragon horns slept while cradling a small barren planet. Her long white dragon tail coiled around the tiny world behind her; they clung to one another for warmth, sleeping sweetly.
Her eyelashes trembled faintly, her delicate little nose breathing steadily.
Drool dripped from the corner of her mouth onto the small planet, dampening its gray soil as though she were hugging a plush toy.
Bai Yujun dreamed. She dreamed of returning beneath the Ginkgo Tree in that inconspicuous valley within the Southern Wilderness Hundred Thousand Mountains. The grass was green, the sky blue, and the stream crystal-clear. She secretly climbed into bird nests, stealing only one egg to swallow, living peacefully and leisurely as the mountain king of her own domain. Coiled around the ancient Ginkgo Tree, she flicked her serpent tongue and whiled away the afternoon.
No one knew how many days and nights had passed. Perhaps one year, perhaps two.
Time had lost all meaning...
The dim void vanished, and the small planet disappeared without a trace. In a damp, pitch-black cave, the Dragon Girl floated in slumber, curled into a ball in search of security.
A mysterious buoyant force carried Bai Yujun toward the cave mouth.
She yawned and woke.
"So sleepy~"
A star had just risen. Like a fiery red flatbread, it slowly climbed over the mountain ridge, driving away the chill and raising the temperature.
An abnormal current stirred in the thin air, just as it had when she first arrived at the gray ruin planet.
"The wind is rising..."
Bai Yujun felt strangely bereft.
A gray sandstorm appeared on the horizon, drawing ever closer. In the unseen depths of fate, she knew that after the