A Forbidden Pact with the Dark Moon

Name: A Forbidden Pact with the Dark Moon
Author: En Ruo

与黑月光签订禁忌契约

by En Ruo (恩若)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 502k Words
Genre: Ancient Romance
Subgenre: Ancient Romance High-Concept
Updated: 13d ago
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Synopsis

The quirky young detective versus the cold-hearted second male lead

[Redemption] [Growth] [Ensemble cast] [Happy ending]

Content warnings: 1. Mild horror elements

2. Told from the heroine’s third-person perspective. This is not a story centered solely on an all-powerful heroine, and none of the characters are perfect.

After waking up one day, Yan Yunshu finds that she has transmigrated into the serialized novel she has been following. By a twist of fate, she also signs a life-and-death pact with the most dangerous villain in the story.

From then on, she joins the hero and heroine and the villain on a treasure hunt, exploring ancient tombs, subduing demons, and solving bizarre cases, with danger lurking at every turn.

She discovers that the original story is riddled with confusing logic and plot holes, and that it does not match what she is actually experiencing.

To return to her original world, Yan Yunshu decides to take a gamble and set the story right.

But little by little, things begin to change... The villain, who should have been cold-blooded and merciless, keeps protecting her whenever danger strikes. The hero and heroine look at her with growing warmth, and the supporting characters, whose roles in the book had seemed rather flat, begin to awaken to their own consciousness, as if they have grown souls...

The bonds she forms give her the courage to use her meager strength to change the fate of the villain and everyone else. But life is like a dream, and the world is unpredictable. Once the layers of mist are cleared, all that awaits them is a vast conspiracy.

Only when the pact takes effect does Yan Yunshu realize that transmigrating into a book was, all along, her own path to redemption.

“Ah Shu, don’t cry. I’ll find you, wherever you are, even at the ends of the earth.”

“Su Changyi, everyone says you’re utterly wicked, but I insist on making you a hero who saves the world.”

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241Chapters

160Reads · 30 days

78kReads · all time

105Shelf adds, last 14 days

8.9Score

<1 ch/weekPace

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