When He Warmed Her Silence
In the beginning, the world was shaped by the Five Great Currents (五行): Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water.
When perfectly balanced, they formed the Wheel of Harmony, sustaining heaven, earth, and spirit.
But balance requires an unseen counter-force — something that exists between the flows.
Thus, Heaven created Void (无), the Silent Current, to absorb excess energy when the world overflowed.
The Void was never meant to take shape as life — but one day, Heaven trembled, and the Void incarnated into flesh.
Yin Lian was that incarnation.
The world’s balance cracked; elemental lines weakened; spirits whispered of an “era of convergence” — when all six elements would return to the Source, either to renew or destroy the world.
Born under an empty sky on a night of solar eclipse — the heavens trembled, the astrologers declared: “This child will bring imbalance to the five.”
Her terrified parents, minor nobles in a remote county, abandoned her at the edge of the Heaven’s Ridge Forest, where a wandering Taoist hermit found her.
Raised deep in the woods, she learned the Arts of Elemental Balance: meditation, talisman-making, minor exorcisms.
Yet, no matter how pure her heart, the world around her withers slightly — flowers lose color near her, candles burn shorter, spirits avoid her aura.
Then she met Huo Yun, a soldier whose blazing Fire did what no one else could — it warmed her silence...
