Wucheng is a small town at the edge of the Mei Empire with a once famous Heaven’s Edge Inn that now serves more vagrants than heroes.

Amongst the rabble is a rumored spy carrying a secret destined to change the fate of the nation and two constables are on the hunt to eliminate this threat.

Famed swordsman Lin Wuai and his wife, Lin Ruting, along with their ten-year old disciple want nothing more than escape from the endless turmoil in the martial world of the Rivers and Lakes. Only one small border town stands between them and the endless green prairies and pale blue skies.

Local black sheep, Feng Xiaoyan, hates everything about her town and its people. She blames them for the death of her parents and sister, and they blame her for everything else. Perhaps she has finally found the small kindling needed to set the world ablaze.

Ouyang Yaoyao learns the immutable law of the martial world when her father, the great General Ouyang Shan, has a past that catches up to him. His late nemesis’ son, Ling Feng, abducts Yaoyao to force a duel to avenge his father. Feng escapes with Yaoyao to a nearby mountain where the heavy snow forced the two to shelter together through winter.

Feng and Yaoyao learn to trust one another in order to survive the harsh environment and grow close. One day, the young swordsman reveals an astonishing secret about her father’s dark past. The snow is melting, and the day of the duel approaches. Between love and loyalty, righteousness and family, Yaoyao must choose.

Ashes fall from the sky onto a barren land. Dreams have disappeared from human consciousness.

Eva trusts no one and relies only on herself to survive. An encounter with a Seer who foretold death unless she sticks to a mysterious man wearing a forbidden color and a run-in with Marauders that left her for dead forced Eva to rethink her belief. Like fire to wood, Eva would consume this man’s good fortune and avoid further calamity. The problem is she begins to fall for him.

Ainsley holds a secret he may not fully understand. One thing is certain however—the religious zealots called the Guardians want him dead for it. He has a missing friend to find, and now, he has a strange companion whom he couldn’t get rid of no matter how he tries. But when he is at risk of losing her forever, Ainsley realizes what he must do to save her and the world.