The winter sun, when rising, is at a lower angle and its color is a bit fainter than during the summer and autumn. At the same time and location, staring straight at the summer and autumn sun can make you unable to open your eyes, yet viewing the winter sun feels as if it is seen through a layer of frosted glass. You can clearly discern its outline. Sometimes, it even gives a strange 'refreshing' sensation.
Just like now.
Being already past midday, Zheng Qing looked up but couldn't see a full sun. He could only see a small semicircular ball of orange-red light hanging in the greyish-blue sky, casting a layer of platinum hue on half the sky.
