Chapter 1: the Black Swan.

*Illustrations are included in the papers*
It was running the 5th year of Kun Dynasty, Year of the Dragon, during a Spring late and slow to come.

The delicate sunbeams shimmered over the pale, porcelain skin of the beautiful maiden upon her arrival at the Palace.
A soft breeze harmoniously lifted her hair, darker than the abyss of night, in a twisted dance.
Many among the servants and guards couldn't force their gazes away, as the beauty advanced through the path separating her from what would be her home till the day of her departure from this world.
An ominous fate followed her, yet nobody could foretell until very late times, when the wrongdoings could no longer be undone.

Hei Tianè. images.app.goo.gl/Ui36ckMxYUi5KvYD8 The Black Swan *Allegory for a mean witch* had been sold to the court by her family to serve as a mere maid, but her ambitions were her own and nobody could take them away from her.
Although she looked as fragile as a flower, a fierce storm enraged in her heart, that not even the radiant light of a Golden Sun *Allegory for a good ruler* could ever tame.
Like an inersorable tide, her reputation only kept growing, submerging everything standing on her way. Not even the young Emperor could escape and without the material support, Hei Tianè could soon enough dig her spot in the warm arms of the gentle Golden Sun images.app.goo.gl/WHDDNaftECyvLKdg6