Tears of the Dragon

Born from the forbidden union of two of the 33 Thrones, Rei should never have existed.

When her birth threatens the balance of eternity, the remaining Thrones move to destroy her. To save their daughter, her parents sacrifice their divinity and send Rei beyond the reach of the heavens.

They fall.

She survives.

Cast into a forgotten world of sects, prophecy, and cultivation, Rei descends as an omen ten thousand years in the making. The Skyroot Temple calls her a child of heaven. The Murakami clan sees an opportunity. Blood is spilled over who will claim her first.

But when Rei is examined, an unseen touch hides her from notice, and she is declared worthless-rootless, empty, a child with no meridians, no talent, and no future.

Only Murakami Yua, a discarded daughter of the clan, chooses to spare her.

Raised in the shadows of contempt, Rei grows up as little more than a burden in a world where power is everything. Yet beneath her fragile mortal body lies something no cultivator could comprehend: the sealed inheritance of two fallen Thrones who chose love over supremacy.

The heavens failed to kill her once.

If Rei survives long enough to awaken what sleeps inside her, she may become the force that shatters the order of gods and mortals alike.