Stories in the Belly

Blood stains the earth of Forgetful Husband Slope, where six sets of footprints mark a trail of ancient terror. Sang Pan Du grips a wooden shard pulsing with forbidden runes—a relic from Kun Yu that sears her palm with otherworldly light. Thunder cracks across the peak as her three unborn children writhe within her womb, disturbed not by fear but by the shard's corruption: tainted with dust from Mo Mei Chuan's inkstone, downy fluff from Liu Mei Que's hair, and residual ink from Shu Yan's poetry paper. These three essences twist together in a volatile dance of power. Meanwhile, Kun Xiao Shu jou…