Southern Files: The Heartbound Pact

Updated daily at midnight. A tragic romance with a happy ending. My next novel will be either a campus story or an infinite-flow adventure. I enjoy terrible puns and love reading your comments. Wishing all my readers happiness every day.

Killing the one you love with your own hands is a calamity the Zhang twins cannot escape.

Zhang Hailou drove a short blade into Zhang Haixia’s heart with his own hands, after ancient Qiang sorcery had completely corrupted him and turned him evil. From then on, the words “Hailou,” spoken only for him, became a phantom voice that haunted him for the rest of his life.

He thought his bone-deep remorse would stay buried forever, but an unsigned secret letter suddenly arrived on his desk: “Xincheng. Something has happened in Nanqiang. We need to work together.”

Taking his mischievous, lively disciple Zhang Haidou and the shrewd, levelheaded Zhang Haichan with him, Zhang Hailou set off along the treacherous old roads of Nanqiang, bound for Xincheng to seek the truth.

A Qiang village stripped of its souls, an ancient tomb built for twins, a spell that binds two hearts, lingering spirits in a forbidden land... One strange case after another gradually exposed the past. An old knife, a clay teapot, tea shared in the dead of night: countless little keepsakes tugged at the feelings Hailou had long buried in his heart.

This restrained, profound love, hidden within the Zhang family’s thousand-year destiny, would finally find its belated moment of standing side by side in the forbidden lands of Nanqiang.