Eternal Night in a Sea of Blood: A Thousand-Year Pact with the Sweet Junior

During a storm in the South China Sea in the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, Gu Haiyue, daughter of a wealthy Lingnan merchant, is attacked by Viking pirates. As she lies dying, a cursed bronze ring engraved with the Old Norse words “bloodlust” pierces her palm. A blood-red vortex swallows the lives aboard the ship. She alone survives, transformed into the first vampire, but loses her parents and Anuyi, the Persian sailor she loves. Over a thousand years of solitude, she becomes a calculating power broker who controls the hundred-billion-strong Evernight Group. Hiding in the city behind the sweet façade of an eighteen-year-old, she allows only her sworn protector, Gu Xuanye, to know the wounds in the depths of her soul.