White Owl's Feather

Six years after the Gaoyang Kingdom shattered continental peace with an unstoppable invasion, the Liangqiu Kingdom survives—but scarred, diminished, and bitterly divided. Crown Princess Gu Yonghuang’s unexpected military brilliance halted the advance, yet lost territories and broken trust fester in the borderlands. In the neutral, war-weary city belt of Wushu, where loyalties blur and old enmities simmer, a sixteen-year-old youth with modest clothes and sharp eyes enters the dusty, unassuming Shuanglin Courtyard—a shop whose strange inventory of jars and absence of porcelain hints at secrets far older than the recent wars. His arrival coincides with quiet tension in the air, unanswered questions about the shop’s neglect, and the first whisper of something uncanny stirring beneath the surface of this fragile, liminal world.