A tiny, lone figure was looking at the sky in front of a graveyard, his gaze was lost in the way of life and nature.

Eight years passed since Zhu Yuan was born and the world was harder than he thought.

Son of a peasant, Zhu Yuan started working in the field of the Lord from the age of five. A year later the Lord waged war with the neighbor fief for personal motives and his father was called as a soldier, like other healthy men he had to leave a family behind but unlike them he didn't return from that war.

Fate is twisted and destiny is strange.

The war was lost but the Lord still didn't lose his motivation, in the name of vengeance he waged a second war a year later, this time taking Zhu Yuan's brother with him. This war was used as a training ground for the heir of the Lord, he was sure that this time they would win, they amassed soldiers from the thirteen villages under him and even called mercenaries from the capital.

Fate is twisted and destiny is strange.

A commandant betrayed the Lord and sold him to the enemy fief.

Two thousand dead, eight thousand wounded and a thousand missing.

The fief of Yucao shed tears of blood for his sons. For a month, black was the only dress of the peasants.

Mothers cried for their sons, fathers got separated by their families and lovers suicided under the grief.

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Fate is twisted and destiny is strange.

Between the missing was Zhu Yuan's brother, they said he probably was still alive.

But he knew, his brother was dead.

Not only him, everyone knew.

Even his mother knew it, the grief of a lost son and a lost husband destroyed her. A year later an epidemic fever attacked the fief, they said the disease came from the west.

One of the first to be attacked was his mother.

Fate is twisted and destiny is strange.

Death took her away from him. He had lost his family too early for him to know its real value.

And now he was looking to the sky asking what should he do.

He wanted to take vengeance on the Lord who caused the death of his father and brother but he knew

Fate is twisted and destiny is strange.

The Lord died under the epidemic disease.

Fate is twisted and destiny is strange.

He repeated it in his mind.

Fate is twisted and destiny is strange.

The way of life never works how the humans want it to.

Nature is neutral.

And Karma is eternal.