Dream of Xiaoran

In an unexpected kidnapping, the modern woman Shui Bingyi is transported to another time and space, the Tianhe Continent. There she meets Bu Sha, an assassin cloaked in cold, deathly stillness who always shows himself behind a crescent-shaped mask, and the youth Xiao Qiran, whose smile is warm while he wears his mask but who, unmasked, reveals a peerless face and clear blue eyes. At their first meeting Qiran removes his mask and smiles at her, and those blue eyes, holding pain and world-weariness yet still as clear as autumn water, stay in Bingyi's memory for a long time. Later, Qiran, afflicted by the Blood Gu, and Bingyi fall in love, and the three travel the martial world under the name the Wandering Trio. Yet fate is not kind: Bingyi is struck off a cliff by an assassin and left for dead; when they meet again, Qiran does not recognize her, while she knows him at a glance, her heart in turmoil but unable to speak. Bu Sha loses all his martial arts for Qiran's mother, and another man, Wei Lingfeng, enters Bingyi's life, so that the trio's feelings and trust are repeatedly tested amid intrigue. This is a story of time travel, the martial world and deep devotion: a bewildered traveler newly arrived in another world and a kind youth newly entering the vast mortal realm meet, part and meet again on an unfamiliar continent, again and again asking whether, after the music ends and the crowd disperses, the promise of "never to part" can still be kept. This is the seventh-anniversary revised collector's edition, revised and arranged throughout by the author and published in three volumes.