At dawn, the translucent skylight panels in the Upper City of Bai Yujing were still trying to resist daylight with a pale halo, attempting to delay the arrival of morning; meanwhile, the stone forest below was already waking up ahead of time, shrouded in shadows. (Note 1)
The turbine air purification devices outside the walls were blowing desperately.
On the street, herds of cattle and horses, like worker bees, were rushing towards the subway.
A woman in a silk robe lazily watered the spider plants behind the window.
The watering made the spout of the watering can increasingly tilted, eventually causing the spider plants to gurgle sweetly, emitting a pure fragrance as sunlight spilled in through the curtain wall gaps.
Amidst all these vague silhouettes bustling for either a new life or new beginnings, the rather eccentric Xu Shu slowly walked out from the Blood Pool.
