checked out the blurb, the preface(kinda bloggy but I found the content agreeable so whatever), the evolution chapter(unnecessary to explain it in a separate chapter, you should rather feed the information to the reader organically) and then snow prologue...
and that's when things got seriously wrong. The chapter is ridden with a lot of tell-not-show, and things happen too quickly.
I understand it's just a prologue and you want to skim through events and get to the action quickly, but I feel like it should have been several times longer, and maybe constitute its own mini-arc. Show how he is bright and hard-working, introduce us to other villagers, show how he interacts with them....
If the village is going to betray him and/or get destroyed, it would do you well to describe its inhabitants and geography in detail, so that when they die or turn on the mc it will hurt the reader who already started growing attached to them.
also, while I'm usually not the one to pay attention to grammar and style, as most of what I read are poorly translated Chinese xianxia novels and I grew used to it and enjoy them despiteit, it would do you well to remove some redundancies in writing.
example
"tears ran down both of his cheeks."----> "tears ran down his cheeks"
here both is unnecessary unless he is some kind of creature that has more or fewer cheeks than humans do and it is necessary to list exactly how many cheeks he has
