The people of Cloud Marsh worship and cherish water, never wasting a drop... They see rain as a deity’s mercy toward the world. Folk belief holds that when the people of Cloud Marsh die, their souls fall into the water: from river to sea, from sea to cloud, then from cloud as rain... returning to Cloud Marsh. The flood that year was especially severe. Xilan tried to wield the water and turn back the disaster, but the overflowing river was already beyond his control. Beneath the relentless rain, he revealed his true form before the people. All they saw was dragon scales thrashing wildly in the flood, crashing against the riverbanks and raising even greater waves— Rumors that the demon dragon had brought on the disaster erupted at once, spreading throughout Cloud Marsh. Soon, people summoned a water-sealing stone to hold down the Xilan River. Between struggling against it and trying to contain the disaster, he missed the soul of the Soul-Returning One destined for him, the soul meant to be born anew and return to the cycle of reincarnation. The harder he struggled, the more heavily the River-Sealing Stone pressed down. At last, it mercilessly pinned him to the riverbed and stripped him of all his power... In the blink of an eye, several cycles of sixty years passed. He missed that soul once, then again... At last, when the River-Sealing Stone loosened, he could finally see the world again and discovered that the soul he had longed for had been reborn and returned to Cloud Marsh in this life...
It pays off old debts, then eventually gathers up odds and ends and grows into a world of its own. From the very beginning, he came specifically for you. If you don’t want the heartbreak, you can choose not to revisit the past and just stay together. No matter what, he loves you—the kind of love that lasts across lifetime after lifetime.
Historical & time travel