An indulgent work for specific tastes, BG, all male leads are virgins, one woman with multiple men, love at first sight, and every character is a lunatic!
The blood of the spirit-bonded race had barely been washed away when humanity had already turned its blades on its own kind.
Su Wanyue was the pampered young lady of the Su family, so spoiled she would throw offerings meant for immortals onto the ground, and so capricious she would make a guard kneel for half an hour just to pick up a hairpin. No one dared defy her, including her guard, Gu Chang'an.
Gu Chang'an was an orphan the Su family had picked up years ago. He did the laundry, cooked, and beat people up whenever asked. But in the woodshed at night, the old sword beneath his pillow would hum softly. The nameless jade pendant he polished by moonlight beneath the window bore the crest of the spirit-bonded clan, wiped out ten years ago.
The black-market master Xie Wujiu barged in with a chill about him, a spirit-bond scroll between his fingers, hot enough to burn through a century of lies. Looking at Su Wanyue, he smiled and said, "The young lady's life is worth half the black market." Then he stared at Gu Chang'an and asked, "When are you going to tell her that her Su family is on the list of people you want revenge on?"
Humans want to eradicate the spirit-bonded. The spirit-bonded want to overthrow a century of oppression. And the three of them are caught in the middle.
In his past life, he was the blade aimed at her. In this life, he is willing to shield her from every arrow lurking in the dark.
The black-market master holds secrets capable of toppling a dynasty, yet insists on staking everything on a spoiled young lady.
Fate had marked their price in secret long ago. But this entanglement spanning past and present lives, is it a gift, or another carefully designed death trap?
