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    Jiang Cheng was named for a river, but even rivers can be defiled.

    He is the heir of Yunmeng Jiang, born to water. Jiang Cheng knows rot when it lives inside his own bones. He is everything a hero must not be: bitter, wrathful, ugly with wanting.

    His hands are bloodied, his voice is too sharp, his body is not his, not really, not after it was made into something else. He is seen as a villain, seen to hate the pariah boy who took everything.

    He does hate him. That is the tragedy.

    But what haunts him more is the story itself: the pages that know his name only as a foil, a cruelty, a cautionary tale.

     

    (In his beginning is his end.)

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