Jiang Cheng | Jiang WanYin/Nie Huaisang

Every year, on the day of the harvest ritual, the village leaders chose someone at random to be sent up the mountain to be sacrificed to the dragon gods, to ensure that they had a good planting season and a bountiful harvest for the upcoming year. This year, Seonghwa was chosen to be the sacrifice. He wondered what he ever did to deserve a fate like this.