A Game Played Amid the Ruins

My name is Yi Chen. I was born without a heart and cannot cultivate immortality. My sect used me as a vessel to seal the “cursed beings” they dared not touch. Until the day the world's greatest sword cultivator stormed our mountain sect, seeking revenge for his beloved. When he shattered the seal and saw that I was the cursed being at its core, the sword clattered from his hand. He looked at me, tears streaming down his face. “A Wu...” he called out a strange name, his voice trembling. “They turned you... into a cursed being?” I looked at him and calmly replied: “You've got it wrong. I didn't become a cursed being.” “Every ‘cursed being’ is a part of me that was cut apart.”