“All my work consists of things no one in either the world of the living or the dead dares to do. My life-taking blade... strikes down immortals and demons who deserve to die but have not been given the order to do so. I always knew this day would come. If anything, I think it came rather late. Sister Dong’er, why are you so alarmed? I’m only being sent into the cycle of rebirth to live among humans once more.”
“So calm and unhurried. I doubt anyone but you could stay this composed!” Long Ba gently pressed a mark onto the brow between the Half-Faced Ghost King’s eyebrows. “A hundred years is more than enough if you can come to terms with it. But if you can’t, what good will one turn of the cycle do...?”
The Half-Faced Ghost King was once the third princess of the East Sea Dragon Clan. Banished to the mortal world for a love affair with a human, she cultivated herself into a ghost king through sheer force of will, walking between the worlds of the living and the dead. She did what others dared not and slew demon immortals who had been condemned to die but never received the order. At last, the day came when the gods punished her and sent her back to the mortal world...
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
