Tales of the Dark River: Twilight Falls over the Chang River

Dark River undertaker Su Changhe × Dark River assassin Mu Linxi

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He is the most ruthless man in Dark River. He rose to the position of patriarch over a mountain of corpses, arrogant, bloodthirsty, and consumed by ambition.

She is Dark River's most courageous soul: powerful, proud, unyielding even in the face of death, and impossible to tame.

Everyone wants Su Changhe to follow the righteous path, do good deeds, and become a good person. Only Mu Linxi asks, “Why should he?”

“A man like Su Changhe shouldn't be trapped in Dark River. He should shatter his shackles, fight his way out with a sword, do what he wants, kill those he wants to kill, and walk the road he chooses.”

“And the price? I'll bear it with him.”

Su Changhe believed the world deserved to despise him. Apart from Su Muyu, Mu Linxi was the first person he ever considered family.

“Ah Xi, the road ahead of me stretches on, beset by endless storms. But you alone are the ordinary human world I want to hold on to at the end of Dark River's long night.”

Mu Linxi wagered her life against fate, asking only that he live to a hundred.

Later, her red clothes stained with blood, she fell into his arms, and the wager they had made long ago came back to her.

“Su Changhe, listen carefully. If this world has to choose one reason worth living for... I hope that reason is yourself.”

“I want you to live to a hundred.”

She closed her eyes, her hand slipping from his palm. Su Changhe's tears fell silently onto her face.

At that moment, snow suddenly began to fall from the sky.

He lowered his head and kissed her forehead.

“Ah Xi, it's snowing.”

Dark River sends its dead to rest, while dusk claims its prey. She fought her way through the entire long night at his side. At last, the final snow fell, and daylight broke over a vast landscape of mountains and rivers.