On her first day transferring to Nancheng University, Yun Shuyao realizes that something is “off” about this prestigious school.
A dragging sound always echoes through the halls during evening study, but no source can be found. Ancient books in the old library turn their own pages, with bloodied fingernails tucked between them. In the reeds on the island in the middle of the lake, the collar of a missing student's uniform rises to the surface, with a note covered in the words “Help me” clutched in its hem.
A max-level powerhouse who can manipulate space, she had planned to sit back and do nothing, but trouble keeps finding her. The hypocritical student council president keeps “accidentally” leading her toward haunted corners. A gloomy upperclassman uses hypnosis in the counseling room to coax students into revealing their deepest fears. Even the mysterious CEO Xuan Yezhen, who suddenly appears, looks at her like she's prey, with a possessive and dangerous intensity.
A shadow fiend lurks in the oils in the abandoned art studio. Fragments from a book-burning case in the Republic of China era record a curse. The resentment at the mass grave beneath the school is coalescing into something tangible... When one “accident” after another turns out to be part of a conspiracy, Yun Shuyao can no longer be bothered to do nothing.
“Planning a sacrifice? Ask my pocket dimension if it'll allow it first.”
She tears open a rift in space, trapping the shadow fiend that lunges at her inside an alternate-dimensional barrier. Using her power to turn back time, she finds the villain's weakness in an old object. She takes on every unhinged poser in her path, but loses her cool for the first time when Xuan Yezhen takes a fatal blow for her.
“You're pretty hard to kill.” She turns away, the tips of her ears red.
But the man catches her wrist, his eyes filled with possessive madness he can no longer hide. “My life is bound to yours.”
At this campus, where classes run as usual by day and ghosts roam by night, the sharp-tongued, tsundere space powerhouse,
