The Fox Bride's Inkstone

“Grandpa Left Me a Broken Inkstone on His Deathbed. On the Seventh Night After His Funeral, a Sedan Chair Came to a Stop Outside”:

Past and present lives + tragic love between a human and a monster + Chinese horror aesthetics + sweet romance with a twist

Setting: The modern world, hiding mysterious places and beings such as the “Demon Market,” “ghost marriages,” and “families of fox immortals”

· Protagonist: Shen Yan (25, an antique book restorer and the grandson of a man who raised foxes)

· Heroine: Hong Yao (a thousand-year-old red fox, trapped in an inkstone for fifty years as she awaits her lover’s reincarnation)

· Key artifact: A chipped, hornless old inkstone (the vessel sealing Hong Yao and a witness to the pair’s love)

· Central mystery: Is Shen Yan merely a stand-in for his grandfather, or the person Hong Yao has truly been waiting for?

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