Wedge: Flower skeleton photo
When the 800-year-old Po Meng scooped up the thousand and first spoonfuls of soup, the Wangxiang Terrace cracked.
Blood springs gush out from the earth's veins and overflow her embroidered shoes decorated with flowers from the other side. The flowers that bloomed on Huangquan Road always had only long stems, but now they were blooming tremblingly at her feet - a young man was curled up in the bright red petals, his eyelashes were covered with ice crystals, and the gilt bronze mirror with iris pattern in his arms had rusted to green.
"Is it worth it?" She crushed a petal, and a rainy night in the 30th year of the Republic of China immediately appeared in the mirror. The restorer in a bamboo robe knelt in the burned laboratory and pressed the burning blueprint to his heart. What the flames licked was not the flesh, but a pearl-colored mist.
The young man opened his eyes in the flower core, with two afterimages swimming in his pupils. The left eye shows the archaeological team members falling into the tomb passage with a flashlight, and the right eye shows the restorer using a carving knife to carve the last iris pattern on the bronze mirror.
Po Meng's silver spoon struck the edge of the mirror: "He exchanged twenty years of life for you to have a stable life, but you exchanged eternal life for this broken mirror?"
The bronze mirror suddenly made a trilling sound like the cry of wild geese. A red line of contract appeared on the young man's wrist, which was the oldest forbidden soul curse - in the cage in the name of love, the guarded eventually became the guardian.
When the first petal fell into the soup pot, the entire Wangchuan River reflected the starry sky of 1943.
- Soul Law: Soul exchange requires twenty years of life, and there will be a forced exchange of twelve hours every new moon.
- Order of Forgotten River: Souls with deep obsession will condense into bloody flowers of the other side, and Meng Po Soup needs to be guided by the petals of obsession.
Reader comments
It's really beautiful, the writing is super good, the more I read it, the more I think about it
It's really beautiful, the writing is super good, the more I read it, the more I think about it