The sky is falling for the Steam Dynasty.
Su Tan stood on the ruins, the bone fragments in her palms oozing with blood - they were the supervision orders that Pei Yan had personally cut out for her.
The steam iron cage that strangled her whole family ten years ago was now wrapped around his waist. The sound of gears biting into flesh was more painful than his father's screams back then.
"After the blood contract is released," he held her embroidery bandage with his blood-stained hands, "you can become a free embroiderer."
'
But she pressed the bone fragments into the core of the iron cage, and the rusty red gold threads followed the lines of the mechanism and crawled all over the sky.
"Pei Duzao," she laughed amid the roar, "what I want is never freedom, but to work with you to burn down this cannibalism rule." '
