A Palace Museum artifact restorer accidentally awakens the ancient progenitor of a blood clan from a painting, and a blood pact binding their lives is sealed between them. He has waited three thousand years, all so he can kill her with his own hands.
Shen Qingyan is an artifact restorer at the Palace Museum. With her deft hands, she can bring thousand-year-old fragments back to life.
Then, late one night, as she restores a silk painting from the Warring States period, she cuts her finger, and a drop of blood falls into the eye of the figure in the painting.
The painting comes to life. The ancient general in black armor slowly opens his eyes and says four words to her:
“I've finally found you.”
His name is Ye Wuyuan, the progenitor of the Eastern Night Clan, transformed three thousand years ago by Chi You's blood curse. He is the only monster unaffected by the blood moon. He has waited three thousand years to find her, the reincarnation of the last shaman priestess, and kill her to break the curse.
But she is no longer the high priestess she was in her previous life. She is Shen Qingyan. She restores artifacts, gently scolds people, and slips a hot-water bottle into his arms when his old wounds flare up.
He can't bring himself to kill her.
The blood pact is forced into being, making her his “contractor.” Controlled and imprisoned, she is dragged into the Night Clan's infighting and the blood moon's curse. As the truth is peeled back layer by layer, she discovers that she was not an accidentally born vessel, but an “antidote” her mother created with her own hands. From the very beginning, her existence was meant to save everyone, everyone except herself.
Three thousand years of curses, three thousand years of waiting, and three thousand years of hatred and love.
On the day the blood moon rises, she must choose:
Give up everything she has so he can live beneath the sun.
Or let him kill her with his own hands and put an end to all their sins.
This is a story of salvation and its undoing.
