[Unhinged beauty demon hunter × resentful ghost general] + [Mutual salvation] + [Fated entanglement]
Ling Shuang, the sharpest blade in the Spirit Wardens, is ordered to investigate the sinister traces of the Spirit Refining Pavilion. But in a desert fortress, she encounters a young resentful spirit with a broken arrow lodged in his chest and a shattered soul on the verge of dissipating: A Che.
A fragment of an heirloom scroll implicates them in a crown prince’s poisoning a hundred years ago. A bloodstained tiger tally points to a general surnamed Xiao accused of “colluding with the enemy and betraying his country.” The Spirit Refining Pavilion’s bone-eating gu, spirit-binding threads, heart-linking gu… Every step closes in, every poisonous scheme interlocks. The infamous ghost ship on the canal spreads its slander far and wide: “General Xiao abandoned the city and fled!” Piles of bones rise up, while the truth lies buried at the bottom of the river.
Worse still, when they first met in the fortress, her family’s jade pendant resonated with the brand on the back of this “ghost general’s” neck! A bizarre “ten-zhang restriction” binds them tight: if he gets more than ten zhang away from her, his soul splits with agony; when she is hurt, he suffers; if he is on the verge of death, the pain that gnaws at her heart will drag her into the abyss too!
He is the biggest obstacle in her investigation of the Spirit Refining Pavilion, and also a “debt” she cannot escape. She is the sole “keeper” toward whom his century-old resentment is directed, and the only light in his darkness.
When the sealed Spirit Refining Cauldron in the Northern Gate underground palace reignites, when painted stone effigies scream soundlessly through the limestone caverns, when a poisonous thread at their necks bears down on their spiritual cores… these two enemies, forced to live and die together, each have a cause to pursue: one raises her blade against evil, while the other clings to the truth and seeks to clear his name.
They will cross mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and uncover a century-old slander.
Bound spirits mark the beginning; making him stick around is the scheme. Watch as an unhinged beauty joins forces with a resentful ghost general to overturn a world shrouded in evil magic.
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