I Made a Bet with the Gods: They Would Stay for Me

[Temporarily on hiatus]

The ultimate darkness, the Grim Reaper × the ultimate light, a young woman

[Mutual salvation + devoted to each other + urban romance + happy ending]

1.

Bai Zhizi had no idea what had gone wrong with her life.

From her body to her heart, from her family to her career, she had treated the world with kindness, only to be repaid with endless torment.

She remembered the statue of Buddha in that dilapidated temple from her childhood, the one she alone had worshiped.

At last, she understood.

The gods couldn't hear her.

No matter how many wishes she made, or how devoutly she prayed.

She herself was misfortune incarnate.

No hope would ever come her way.

And yet, amid a biting gust of cold wind, he appeared by her side.

“I heard you,” he said.

2.

Bai Zhizi couldn't understand why, when the Grim Reaper came to her, his request was for her to make three wishes and then end his life.

It wasn't until the day she followed him and witnessed all kinds of miserable deaths, the poor, the lonely, the old, that she understood.

To him, returning to nothingness was another kind of life.

He gazed into the distance.

The night was like an abyss.

“How could anyone possibly love me?” he said.

She watched a flower fall from his fingertips, but what she heard was: “Love me.”

“I took their lives and brought them pain and sorrow,” he said.

“Please, love me.”

“A god like me, who brings only disaster, could never be loved,” he said.

“I'm begging you.”