Blood.
Crimson blood, staining almost the entire snowy ground red.
Xue Shiyin didn't understand. Her parents always said the Xue Family was a powerful family...
Why had such a tragedy befallen them overnight?
In the distance, severed limbs littered the snow. Among them were the bodies of her parents.
Xue Shiyin wrapped her cotton-padded jacket tighter, hugging her knees as she shivered in a corner.
The Concealing Array her great-grandfather had hastily set up hid her in this corner. The Array blocked out the cold, but Xue Shiyin still felt a chill that pierced her to the bone.
Her body trembled uncontrollably as she sat in the corner, hugging her knees in agony. "Father's dead, Mother's dead, my brother's dead, my grand-uncle's dead..."
Xue Shiyin bit her lower lip so hard that blood and tears trickled down her chin and onto her neck.
She wanted to stand, but she had no strength.
Her mind was filled with nothing but carnage and despair.
TAP, TAP...
