No Passage Between Ruler and Subject

[Two male leads, 1v1, emperor top × loyal-dog bottom, reunited after a breakup, HE, no female lead, both pure]

Shen Zhiyu, the mighty general who became a legend in a single battle, was reborn as Wuming, a low-ranking clerk in the Ghost Realm. On his first day at work, a mishap unleashed thousands of evil spirits, and he was ordered to repair the Register of Evil Spirits in the Ghost Palace before he could complete his tribulation and return to his proper place.

The two could hardly stand the sight of each other, but they forged a bond in battle while hunting ghosts. Then the curse shackles of a Rakshasa demon sent them right back to square one, worse than before.

Past lives and changing times. From the mortal world to the Netherworld, someone had long since laid a trap and was waiting for them to walk into it.

“When the sovereign wants a subject dead, the subject has no choice but to die.”

In this perilous world of shifting schemes, Wuming followed the clues to uncover the truth behind the kingdom's fall, investigate the rights and wrongs of mortals and immortals, and pierce the veil of mystery, bringing to light a thousand-year-old case involving the twin crown princes of the ancient Yueqi kingdom.

“Shen Lang, do you hate me?”

“A scholar dies for the one who understands him; a subject lives for his sovereign.”

The Ghost Palace sovereign lowered his eyes and gently ran his fingers over the old red-tasseled spear. “If you weren't in the kingdom, what would be the point of conquering the world?”