Ashes of Ice, Heart of Flame: A Tale of Sealed Fire and Broken Ice (JIELING)

Two nations once sealed a bond through blood and marriage. Now, generations later, their heirs must face the consequences.

Liè Yàn, the fireborn prince with a power too wild to control, is chained by a seal he never asked for.
Xuān Ruì Líng, heir to the Water Nation-who sealed that power beneath the veil of betrayal.

"The official records speak of betrayal."

Xuān Ruì Líng-no longer a boy, not yet a man, silver-eyed and silent with inherited frost-drove a blade of corrupted ice through King Liè Huáng and Queen Mei Zhāo.
Not in battle.
In peace.

They say Liè Yàn, their only son, was found crumpled among the ruins, his veins burned black, his spirit core fractured-
Sealed by Líng's own hand.

And before judgment could fall,
Líng vanished.

His silence was taken as admission..

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"The truth was swift. The nations split overnight."

Yùhé Hall, the last hope of unity, burned to ash.

Red lotus petals drifted through snow-
Not as bloom,
But as burial shroud.

The river that once divided fire and frost
ran red for a week.

"But scrolls are written by those who survive-
Not by those who bleed."

Some said Líng was a curse sent to test the Fire Crown.

Others whispered he serve Wei Mo.

But all agreed on one thing-

He was the beginning of the end.

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Carved into the broken stone archway that once crowned the pavilion gates, now scorched and crumbling with time, remains a single line:

"Blood remembers warmth. But ice-ice never bleeds."