Summary
Chapter One: Golden Cicada’s Reincarnation
I woke up with a start in a downpour. The sharp pain at the back of my head felt like fire, and broken sobs reached my ears. I struggled to open my eyes and saw a face stained with tears. The young woman’s hair was disheveled, her pomegranate-red wedding dress blackened with bloodstains. She was pressing a piece of cloth against the wound on my forehead.
“Royal…Royal Brother?” she stammered, the golden bells on her wrist jingling faintly. My heart pounded furiously in my chest. I stared at the vermillion mole at the corner of her eye, and the scene of parting with the Queen of the Kingdom of Women on my previous journey to obtain scriptures suddenly flooded my mind. My fingertips touched a cold object at my waist. I pulled it out to see it was half of a broken jade pendant—