The Great Shaman, or Dashi Tianzhu, slowly closed his eyes. A deep, sad sigh escaped him. "The story I'm about to tell you started a long, long time ago. sixty years ago, to be exact. It was during the time of your grandfather, the late King Yu. Your grandfather had two sons."
"The older son was your father, Prince Zhao Yuan. He was a good and fair man who always did what was right. The younger son was Prince Tian Fei. This younger prince was very different. He was greedy for power, enjoyed being cruel, and had a strange, powerful gift for controlling nature. He was the most spoiled child the royal family, the Yue Court, had ever raised."
Qingxue's heart thumped hard in her chest. Tian Fei. That was the name she had read in the old Queen's secret diary. Her mysterious, dangerous uncle.
