Chen Buyu inherits a mysterious old ledger called the Book of Nine Pacts.
Its pages record not accounts, but nine blood-red contracts:
“When the Yellow River runs clear, I will take the soul of one of your descendants.”
“When blood writing appears on the walls of the Forbidden City, I will claim a century of fortune from your clan.”
“When the sound of the land sinking rings out again, I will take the destiny of your unborn son.”
Forced to become the keeper of the contracts, he discovers that what he collects is not money or property, but altered histories and bloody chains of cause and effect. With every pact he fulfills, he draws one step closer to the truth: the ledger is the penal code of the thousand-year-old History Stabilization Bureau, created to correct historical errors.
Now the final three pacts have lit up at once. A plan called “Zero” emerges: reset every timeline after the Qin dynasty, sacrificing the lives of a million people who were never supposed to exist in exchange for a so-called “correct” history.
Chen Buyu grips the bloodstained ledger, standing before a rift in the chain of cause and effect:
If he destroys the contracts, he can save thousands in the present, but history will be plunged into chaos forever;
if he fulfills them, he will personally erase countless living souls and become an accomplice of time.
Will he become history’s judge, or an accomplice to fate?
Welcome to the web of cause and effect in The Book of Nine Pacts.
📖 Suitable for readers · Love the "Ghost Blowing Lantern"-style professional adventure, but long for more complex rule settings · Interested in philosophical topics such as "time paradox" and "law of causality" · Looking forward to seeing the innovative integration of Chinese folklore elements and science fiction thinking · Don't shy away from darkness and cost, and pursue stories with dense thoughts ✨ Why is it worth reading? If you are tired of the exaggerated cultivating immortals and fighting monsters and looking forward to reading that satisfies both intelligence and aesthetics - "Nine Deeds Book" provides a rare choice. It wraps a passionate core with cold words, and sprouts strange branches of science fiction in the folk soil. Under the word "contract", it pursues eternal propositions about time, ethics and existence. 🏮 Setting dimension·Amazing fusion of folklore and science fiction Based on the Nine Deeds of the Yellow River, folk elements such as folk credit knives, river-suppressing bronze figures, and secret techniques of deed tablets create a strong sense of regional mystery; while the injection of science fiction philosophies such as "law of cause and effect," "time zero" and "conceptual entity" give the supernatural system a cold logical core. This is not a simple fantasy legend, but a self-consistent "causal pseudoscience" universe. ⚖️ Thematic dimension·serious questioning of ethical dilemmas The whole book runs through a core debate: If we have the opportunity to correct historical pain, do we have the right to rewrite the past? There is no simple dichotomy between good and evil. The protagonist Chen Buyu struggles between fulfilling the contract and resisting fate. Every choice is accompanied by the price of blood and time. This kind of philosophical speculation gives adventure stories a rare ideological weight. 🧩 Narrative dimension·Three layers of puzzle solving for intellectual pleasure Each unit case is like a delicate mortise and tenon joint: the surface is a folklore anomaly (such as "The Yellow River is clear"), the middle layer is related to a historical mystery (the Sanmenxia Bronze Man Incident), and the bottom layer reveals the operating logic of the law of cause and effect. While readers enjoy the suspenseful atmosphere, they also gain a deep sense of participation in unraveling the cocoons and collaborative reasoning. 👥 Character dimension·Arc and bond of group portraits The taciturn and stoic deed holder Chen Buyu, the rational archeologist Shen Shujian, the cursed Wang Minzhi, the complicated philosophy Zhong Yue... None of them are functional tool men. Their choices and changes jointly weave a web of destiny about responsibility, sacrifice and symbiosis. Supporting characters such as Lao Gui, Shen Qingru, etc., Outline the thickness of the tragedy with just a few strokes. 🌊 Reading experience·A symphony of suffocation and epicness From the blood mist of Mang Mountain, the conceptual pollution of the memory beach, to the slow awakening of the Ouroboros under the Yellow River, the description of the wonders with a strong sense of picture brings an immersive adventure; while the dual pressure of "causal backlash" and "time countdown" make the tension penetrate into the bone marrow. From a macro perspective, the collision of three thousand years of Yellow River civilization history and personal destiny has laid out a majestic epic temperament. "The Book of Nine Deeds" is not only a story about sealed monsters, it is also a profound narrative about how to coexist with historical trauma and how to find dignity in the shackles of fate. Opening it is like stepping into a Yellow River where cause and effect are intertwined. The front is both fog and a lighthouse.