The Noble Consort resorted to every conceivable means to secure a baby boy, plotting to pass off another woman’s son as her own so she could regain the emperor’s favor.
On the day she gave birth, she sent her men to a secluded village, where they murdered a young couple and abducted their swaddled infant.
I survived by hiding inside a rice vat.
But what she didn’t know was that the village was called Half-Ghost Village.
Once its residents turned fifty, they began aging in reverse.
The baby her men had taken was my Great-grandfather.