Love and Bond: An Encounter with a Stranger (Two-Volume Set)

The award-winning novel Love Bond: An Encounter with a Stranger by acclaimed author Shi Dingrou won first place in the Rainbow Cup's All-World Love competition. It has been called China's answer to Twilight. A departure from the grief and despair of Past Stories of Li Chuan, it reveals a strange world of fox spirits. The love between Guan Pipi and Helan Jingting crosses a thousand years of reincarnation, transcending time and species in a beautiful, romantic tale that will move you to tears.

Helan Xun is an expert in ancient jade, eats only flower petals, and loves to bathe in the moonlight. This otherworldly fox immortal has searched for a thousand years, all to find the one he loves. Guan Pipi works quietly, loves with a steady heart, and dreams of becoming a journalist. This ordinary city woman bears a curse and a remarkably troubled past life. Was their meeting and entanglement a mere coincidence, or was it fate?