Red Finery

Red finery, red finery.

She is like the blazing sun that never sets over the vast deserts of the southern frontier. Fire burns in her heart, and wherever she goes, desolation follows. Her senior martial sister is her only weakness-and the reason she has come to the Central Plains seeking revenge.

Meeting Ji Hanchu was never part of her plans. That young man, as precious and pure as the moon in the heavens, brought light to the wasteland within her heart.

But in the end, they are different. Her vengeance cannot sway his righteousness, nor can his love change her resolve.

"Third Young Master Ji, three cups of fine wine.

"With the first, I wish you good health and a hundred years of life. With the second, I wish you and Miss Yin a lifetime together, growing old surrounded by children and grandchildren. With the third, I wish us peace in our separate corners of the world, each content with what we have. May you never think of me again.

"From this farewell onward, mountains and rivers will stretch between us, and we shall never meet again."