The Immortal Pawnshop Beneath the Eaves

"What would you like to pawn?"

"Once this pact is made, I shall never regret it, even after ten thousand calamities.

Even if my soul is scattered, the pawnshop will endure, and this love will remain forever sealed."

"The mortal world is a furnace, and all living things are its fuel. The pawnshop is the only furnace chamber, and I

am the keeper of the flame, the ashes, and the last solitary ember that has not gone out for a thousand years."

Fragments from Su Yan's Pawnshop Journal