The Dragon’s Mirror: The Last Legend of Mulan

In a Tang dynasty tomb uncovered in 2007, archaeologists found the remains of a woman buried with armor — and a mirror. Not bronze, but obsidian, black as oil.

The inscription on her sword read: “I became what they feared.”

Records from that era mention a soldier who fought without sleep, claiming her reflection whispered battle strategies at night. After the war, she shattered her mirror and retired to the mountains. Locals called her the woman who cast no reflection.

When the archaeologists lifted the mirror from the tomb, they found the glass uncracked — but a faint face lingered within it, not matching the skull beside it.

The mirror was sent to a Beijing museum. Two weeks later, it vanished from its case. The only footage left behind shows the camera flickering — and two shadows moving where one woman had been.