[Beautiful, powerful, tragic goddess + ordinary person who keeps being reborn]
[The Underworld King creates the world + entanglement across ten lifetimes]
On the banks of the River of Forgetfulness, atop a blood-red lotus throne, the Underworld King awakens from chaos. She commands life and death, yet is bound by the shackles of the Heavenly Dao. She watches the lives and deaths of mortals with cold indifference, until she meets the one mortal who can see her: A Heng.
“I guarded the cycle of reincarnation for a thousand years, but couldn’t keep you safe for even one lifetime.”
A Heng dies violently in nine lifetimes, his soul scattered across the mortal world. To defy fate, the Underworld King builds the Iron Enclosing Mountain with her own hands, establishes the Mirror of Retribution, and appoints the Ten Kings of Hell, challenging the Heavenly Dao.
He takes his own life to search for his wife, and she makes eight hundred miles of red spider lilies bloom beside the River of Forgetfulness;
He becomes a weary bird, crying in sorrow, and she gives up her bones to build a bridge that will send him to his next life;
He becomes a scapegoat for the powerful, and she storms the execution ground, only to recover a headless corpse...
But in his tenth life, he finally remembers her!
“If the Heavenly Dao won’t let you live in peace...” She crushes the lotus throne, and the flames of karma consume the sky. “Then this cycle of reincarnation can go to hell!”
[What makes this book stand out]
✔ Unhinged Underworld King VS mortal who dies tragically in nine lives: She commands life and death, yet cannot save the one she most wants to protect, even though he never remembers her in any of his nine lives.
✔ A Chinese-style cosmic horror underworld: Evil ghosts of Iron Enclosing Mountain, trials at the Mirror of Retribution, tortures of the Ten Kings of Hell... Together they form a vast political power structure in the underworld.
✔ Heart-wrenching twists: Every lifetime ends in tragedy, but each death drives change in the underworld.
✔ A richly drawn ensemble cast: A calculating, obsessive ghost clerk, the cold-faced Judge Bao, Granny Meng... Every character has a painful past.
The plot and writing are good! It's just a bit cruel...
Chang Geng Chang Geng Chang Ning
It's a very interesting book, but no one is reading it
Not bad, good looking
It's really good to watch, the storyline is delicate and moving, I haven't been so excited for a long time
Vivid, graceful, super beautiful
Really beautiful