Tomb Raiding: From the Start, I'm Hunted by the Zhang Clan

[Original plot + The Lost Tomb + parts of the main storyline]

(New book, no rating yet. Expect plenty of headcanon and original plotlines. Please don't nitpick.)

(No heroine, undecided pairing, or there may be no pairing at all.)

Synopsis One:

Have you ever opened your eyes to find yourself being hunted?

Have you ever blinked and found yourself running for your life?

Zhang Haize has.

If he had to describe it, he'd say: What the hell is this?

Zhang Haize thought this as he stamped down hard with one foot... and fell into a pit. Who was the jerk who dug this thing so steep and deep? It was pitch-black down there. Did they really not care that I might be claustrophobic?

Wait, I'm still falling? Isn't this pit a little too deep?

Moving corpses, man-eating bugs, and all sorts of traps...

Wait! Where the hell have I ended up? And what's with the note in my arms? Why does it only have the word "cold" on it? Is that part of my character setup or a clue?

Synopsis Two:

I am an abandoned child of the world, with an ending already written for me.

I am not the Zhang family's Qiling, yet I cannot escape the tangled web of fate.

They call me the rain of Zewu, a lotus apart from the world.

But the silent rain sinks into the sea, and the lotus is inexplicably stained with mud.

I am Zhang Haize, and I am rushing headlong toward my end.

(This is something I made for my own amusement. I was out of books to read, so I cooked one up myself.)