The Blood-Red Cherry Blossom Pact: Ten lifetimes bound together, hearts carved out to seal the pact, lives exchanged until they become one
The gilded pocket watch stopped at the hour of the tiger on Awakening of Insects. In a Republican-era marriage contract, Lin Shen glimpsed the remnants of nine lifetimes. The one whose heart he had carved out, poisoned, and nailed down was always the same: the pale, smiling face of Lu Rancan, the human medicine vessel.
**A tragic romance across reincarnations**: From Nuo opera in Miaojiang to the gardens of Suzhou, every lifetime brings a bloody reunion. A bronze dagger used by a Ming-dynasty mystic to carve out a heart and feed it to a tiger; poisoned peacock gall shared in a Republican-era theater; seven peachwood nails to pin a soul at Hanshan Temple... Lu Rancan bore every deadly trial for him, the rotting cherry-blossom mark engraved with nine hundred years of willing devotion.
**A suspenseful mystery**: Bone porcelain sealed the ashes, silver bells from western Hunan bound the living soul, and the crystal coffin beneath Leifeng Pagoda reflected a countdown in a cafe. Only after Lin Shen solved the deadly Miaojiang pact did he learn that every packet of arsenic had been mixed with blood from Lu Rancan's fingertips. The supposed mutual slaughter across nine lifetimes was actually that person sacrificing his soul to give Lin Shen one chance at survival.
**A forbidden, passionate love**: Lu Rancan's body temperature remained forever cold as corpse wax, yet the cherry blossom beneath his collarbone burned through time and space. Beneath the modern neon lights, the two men, dressed in suits, raise their coffee cups. Jade powder ripples at the bottom. In this life, they have finally learned to embrace in the midst of the curse, while the hundred thousand prayer flags at the Well of Rebirth transform into twin cherry blossoms on a single branch.
[Classical Chinese aesthetics × suspenseful tragic romance]
Ten lifetimes of carving hearts and engraving love into their bones, all for a reunion at Awakening of Insects. The most poisonous love spell is willingly falling into the deepest hell for you, until twin flowers bloom within the curse.
