When the Cycle Ends, I Retire to the Mortal World

When Xiao Jue was five, a terrifying miasma brought the Xiao family to ruin.

His father was sent to prison, leaving him only an old, rust-spotted wristwatch whose hands never stopped moving.

Overnight, his family fell from grace, and all the storms of the world came crashing down on a little boy’s shoulders. On a freezing street corner, Xiao Jue took in the orphaned girl Xiao Nianshu. He gave everything to protect her as she grew up, seeing her as his only weakness and the only family he had.

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