[Xuanhuan + Tragic Romance + Rule-Based Fantasy] Bound by fate, when the ill-fated bond runs out, the soul is scattered
The First Iron Law of the Sinful Sea Bureau: When a human and a demon fall in love, they must bear the burden of their ill-fated bond. Bound by fate, when the ill-fated bond runs out, the soul is scattered.
Gu Yanqing is a Grade C, Banner Nineteen Severance Officer at the Sinful Sea Bureau. His job is to separate every human and demon who should never be together. He doesn’t break up lovers on a whim; before their ill-fated bond runs out, he settles their debt for them.
Four years ago, he met Jiang Zhi beside a well in Wangsheng Town. Two people who had gone there to die sat together all night, and neither jumped. She wrote a character in his palm. He can’t remember it. She deposited it in a bank, forgetting a little more every day.
Four years later, at the Capital’s Feast of Bliss, a prince embraces a paper doll and kisses it. Rouge flows from the doll’s eyes, and it calls Gu Yanqing by name.
Before it fades away, the paper doll draws a city gate in his palm. The gate of Wangsheng Town.
The place is plastered with portraits of him, dating back to his childhood. The signature reads: Eighty years ago. Reward: one memory.
He goes to Wangsheng Town to investigate the truth behind his father Gu Qingming’s imprisonment. She goes there to reclaim the last of her savings.
At the bottom of the well, the rules awaken.
They say: Gu Yanqing, it’s time for you to repay the debt your father owes.
Gu Yanqing grips the Sinful Sea Bureau’s command token. The bone ring on Jiang Zhi’s ring finger shines once more.
“The debt is paid,” he says. “This time, I’m going to bring her home.”
