Miss Sichen’s Exclusive Bootmaker

[Return of the 1999] [Multiple Characters] [Original Storyline] [Vertin as the Protagonist]

Lin Mo is a taciturn fellow who only knows how to make boots. Vertin, the Timekeeper, pulls him out of an underground workshop and makes him her “personal bootmaker.”

From then on, his world changes. He follows Vertin through the Storm and across the ages, using a leather knife to stab steel-skinned Arcanists and shadow bat hide to block shadow-type arcane skills. When people ask him how he manages it, he says, “Boots are like people. They all have a weakest seam.”

The workshop's threshold is nearly worn through.

Regulus takes off her boots and walks barefoot across the floor, asking for red laces and a rock-and-roll soul. Sotheby curls up asleep in a chair, saying his workshop is a hundred times more comfortable than the dorm. Schneider leans against the leather rack with a cigarette between her lips and asks him to brush her hair. In her dark red eyes, he sees a light he has never seen before.

And then there's Vertin. Wearing the boots he made from chamois leather, she walks through the Storm, across the ages, and past everyone's gaze. She never says thank you, but late at night, she opens the workshop door and quietly sits beside him, staying for a long, long time.

Lin Mo thought his life would be all about making boots. Later, he discovered that some people wearing his boots had walked right into his life.

One volume, one world. One pair of boots, one heart won.

Three hundred thousand characters of romance, battles, and foot fetishism (the professional kind). The male lead isn't an overpowered hero. He relies entirely on his craft and sincerity. The harem isn't mindless; every heroine has her own story.

Lin Mo's biggest regret: he should never have let Vertin find out where his workshop was.

Because after that, he was no longer just a “bootmaker.”