Chapter 134 - | The Flower on the Riverbank (Part 1)

The night of the New Year celebration brought a serious drop in temperature over the capital of the Silla Kingdom, despite the festive banners and red lampions lit all over town. Not even the chants to the ancestors and children throwing firecrackers tamed its chilly bite that threatened to freeze solid anything sitting outside for too long. The frost softened close to midnight when big snowflakes playfully danced from the sky all the way to the ground, sticking to the frozen surfaces and piling up.