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Chapter 0: Prologue to the Romance of Lingao

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Author: Unknown, a work from the Tieba forums Song: Mountain peaks crowd like guests at court; waves crash in endless fury, Upon the road through Tongguan, where river and range stand eternal guard. I gaze toward the western capital, and my heart churns with grief. How it wounds me to pass through these lands where once Qin and Han held sway— Ten thousand palaces, now all returned to dust. Wh

Author: Unknown, a work from the Tieba forums Song: Mountain peaks crowd like guests at court; waves crash in endless fury, Upon the road through Tongguan, where river and range stand eternal guard. I gaze toward the western capital, and my heart churns with grief. How it wounds me to pass through these lands where once Qin and Han held sway— Ten thousand palaces, now all returned to dust. When empires rise, the common folk suffer; When empires fall, the common folk suffer still. In those days, the Yuan Emperor had given himself over to folly, and the realm convulsed in chaos. The…

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