Anyone who'd been shot at with any frequency would know: getting hit by a bolt from a professional crossbowman at a dead run from within sixty meters was a death sentence.
Gao Yuan charged out of Hongding Mansion with the others. He often boasted that he'd won the school-wide 100-meter dash three times at his high school sports meets.
In reality, he'd been the runner-up for three years straight. The champion was his childhood friend, Shen Han.
They were neighbors who grew up together. From childhood to adulthood, Shen Han had always been more popular with girls, had better handwriting, got better grades, and was even better than him at sports.
Whenever they were together, Gao Yuan felt he was destined to live his life in Shen Han's shadow.
That was until the incident in the snow mountains. Shen Han got into a fight with someone over food and was killed by a fire axe to the head.
Before he died, Shen Han told Gao Yuan to eat him.
