The Boy Who Became a Demon

Hanging in the Nan family ancestral hall is a faded painting, so old its colors have yellowed. The person in it is said to be Nan Qingchen, founder of the Nan family. His life was undoubtedly the stuff of legends. According to the family records, their ancestor Nan Qingchen was the hereditary Prince of Zhennan. He died of illness at the age of eight, but somehow came back to life. In his twenties, he passed away again on the day he married, only to return to life once more. He lived to be eighty-nine, yet his appearance never aged throughout his life, as if it had been fixed in place. The older generation says that Nan Qingchen's portrait holds a story that must never be told to outsiders. No one knows what that story is.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Please do not imitate.