I Fell in Love by Sacrificing My Ancestor

#Slice of life #Grounded in reality

When a corporate drone returns to her village and finds her ancestors have come back to life

Chen Wanxing, a master’s graduate from a top university, loses her job and returns to her hometown. Beneath the leaking skylight of her old family home, her family chat explodes with a message: “The town’s middle school urgently needs an administrative assistant! Master’s degree required! Monthly salary: 3,500!”

Despairing as she scrolls through a former coworker’s social media post about “getting an IV drip for the sake of a dream,” she accidentally knocks over the offering table in the ancestral hall.

An ancient book wrapped in oilcloth falls into the dust. On its yellowed title page, a blood-red message from the Tongzhi era reads:

“May our descendants treasure this forever.”

That night, the tattered canopy of the carved bed begins to move without a breeze.

A hand with sharply defined knuckles reaches out of the darkness, its icy fingertips brushing the old scar on her wrist.

“Young one, light an incense stick.”

Smoke gathers into a pale, sickly beauty in flowing robes, with phoenix eyes as deep as an ancient well.

Until one rainy night, as the candlelight flickers

He grips the hand with which she lights the incense and slips a blood-jade bracelet onto her wrist.

“The final chapter of the contract needs the warmth of your palm.”

A bolt of lightning splits the ancient tree outside the window. In the crack, a gilded coffin appears, entwined with their birth dates.

The smoke has yet to clear, and the ancient book whispers.

Dare you continue this contract?

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Cool, refined aesthetic: electronic incense in wisps of smoke / dew-covered herbs / a PPT of red spider lilies

Dark tension: blood-jade bracelet / gilded coffin / warnings from the underworld

Sweet romance: biting her childhood sweetheart / a century-old pact of protection