The Wheel of Fate on a Frozen River

[On the night Lin Han died, the dragon skeleton in the Ninth Abyss opened its eyes]

The glass lanterns at his birthday banquet went dark, and twelve heads of blood puppets came crashing down. Lin Han clutched the icy blue blood seeping from his mother's memorial tablet as he watched a broken cold-jade sword pierce the throats of three hundred guests. Every one of them bore a blood-lotus tattoo behind the ear, the mark of the Crown Prince. The bronze key his father had died to protect was prying open the seal on the ice coffin in his spine.

His master, Fan Qizhong, had gouged out his own heart to save him, but turned out to be the skeleton from the eye-gouging altar of the Mysterious Maiden Palace three hundred years ago. A boy in the ice coffin, joined by an umbilical cord to his mother's frozen heart, looked exactly like him. Three hundred blood puppets cloned from his bloodline by the Crown Prince were boiling in the Eastern Palace's alchemy furnace. As the reincarnation ritual for a dragon bride began, dragon horns pierced Lin Han's scalp, and his tears congealed into venom. Beneath the frozen river, the Mysterious Maiden Palace was weaving a genetic prison from interstellar remains.

Brace yourself for major twists:

✓ A maid sheds her skin, unleashing blood-puppet insects, and the banquet becomes a sacrificial altar

✓ A mural devours the living, while a prophecy-spinning ice silkworm crawls out of the steward's corpse

✓ An ancient well reflects another time: his mother personally cut out her unborn child's heart

✓ Three hundred dragon embryos in the cellar pulse in rhythm with Lin Han's heartbeat

Lovecraftian weird fiction × time-loop paradox: corpse beetles gnaw out a star map in flesh and blood, a bronze mirror predicts the next three seconds, and a desert mirage turns out to be a rotating wheel of fate made of living flesh. When Lin Han fits the final piece into the wheel, a baby cries beneath the ice. The 301st replica with dragon blood is carving a new cycle with its reverse scales, its umbilical cord still wrapped around his frozen heart.

#LovecraftianCultivation #GeneticCorruption #ReplacementRomance

A heartbreaking substitute romance like Mysterious Lotus Casebook × a struggle over the wheel of fate on the scale of The Three-Body Problem!