The Beautiful Pearl of Chang’an
In the vast heavens beyond mortal reach, where rivers weave through the sky and stars bloom like eternal flowers, a lonely deity wandered to the edge of the God's Sea, a place so ancient that even time itself lay forgotten.
There, Mo Chen, Supreme Deity of Water and Ice, discovered a pearl — small, translucent, shimmering with the hues of a lost dawn.
Out of a passing whim… or a yearning he dared not name, he imbued it with a sliver of divine power.
For a hundred years, the pearl slumbered in his palm — until one day, bathed in gentle light, a girl awakened.
She was called Xiao Zhu — Little Pearl — a delicate spirit with a vermilion mole beneath her right eye and a faint pearl mark on her brow.
Under Mo Chen’s cold but watchful gaze — and with the patient guidance of earth goddess Wenlan, fiery protector Yanxia, and mischievous wind god Qingfeng — Xiao Zhu learned to speak, to walk, to gather spiritual energy into her dantian… and to smile.
But to ascend to true divinity, she must first descend into the mortal realm, her memories sealed, to live and suffer a full human life.
Thus, in the heart of Chang’an, within the noble house of the Grand Tutor, a child was born — Song Yaoyao, destined to dazzle the empire.
Princes, generals, and foreign lords would be drawn to her light:
— Li Zhen, the Fourth Prince — charming, ambitious, a master of words and masks.
— Li Wei, the Sixth Prince — cold and distant, yet fiercely principled.
— Zhao Yunzhan, heir to the Duke of Zhen — bold, loyal, quick to raise a blade for her.
— Altan Khan, golden-eyed prince of the Uyghur steppes — seductive, poetic, and sorrow-tinged.
— And beyond mortal reach, Xingyao, God of Stars — radiant, aloof, and bound to her by a thread only heaven could weave.
Above them all, Mo Chen watches —
silent, unreadable, but never far.
He alone remembers the little pearl who once looked up at him and called him "Master."
A story of devotion that transcends mortal and divine — of a little pearl blooming into Chang'an’s brightest jewel, and the lonely hearts drawn irresistibly to her light.
