Prologue: Life and Death Separation 2
Night lightly enfolded the Hundred Flowers Garden, a faint, lingering fragrance drifting through the surroundings.
Inside the Inner Pavilion, the windows stood wide open. Moonlight pierced the ink-bamboo grove outside, casting swaying, sparse shadows across the floor. A proud, solitary figure stood alone by the window, draped in a moon-white brocade robe. The fabric was traced with intricate silver thread outlines, faintly suggesting the shadowed form of a cluster of violets.
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