The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: The Daddies Always Want to Atone

Zhang Qiling, Hei Xiazi, and Xie Yuchen as a couple, with a daughter doted on by all three

She was a forbidden flower, born beside the Queen Mother of the West’s jade meteorite and nourished by the blood of three men. She was also the one and only salvation no one could have foreseen in the century-long conspiracy of the Nine Families.

Zhang Yiyi was born from the mingling of Zhang Qiling’s Qilin blood, Hei Xiazi’s blood of immortality, and Xie Yuchen’s blood of spiritual affinity. In her previous life, she searched for her father with a sincere heart for ten years, only to be shot dead by her biological father, Zhang Qiling, the instant she came close. It was all because “Innocent Wu” had said, “She’s one of the Wang Family.”

In this life, she hides in the shadows and no longer hopes they will acknowledge her.

She is the heart-clearing pill that quietly drifts into Zhang Qiling’s palm when his memories become confused, the eye-brightening powder that melts between Hei Xiazi’s lips in the darkest of predicaments, and the life-saving bandage that appears out of nowhere beside Xie Yuchen when he is on the brink of death.

She is the phosphorescence beneath the waters of Xisha, the warm jade amid the snows of Changbai, the song no one knows beside Lake Bana.

Holding the inexplicably warm blood jade in his arms, Zhang Qiling finds a lingering warmth in his fragmented memories.

Hei Xiazi licks the medicinal fragrance from his lips, his eyes playful behind his sunglasses. “What an interesting little shadow.”

Xie Yuchen picks up the bloodstained bandage and asks softly into the empty air, “Who are you, really?”

Each of them believes they have received a little favor from fate.

None of them knows that the one, battered and bruised, who has been doing everything she can to hold their fates together from the shadows is their shared daughter, whose existence they have never known.

Until a freezing night in Golmud, when the black System cat tears away the disguise and lays the bloody truth, along with the girl on the verge of death, before them.

They see Zhang Qiling imprisoned for twenty years, his blood staining the experimental