After being expelled from the Immortal Sect, Ning Jianwei saves a young demon in the Wasteland of Demons, one that should have been put to death.
No one believes it's innocent. Water and food are scarce here, and people are willing to trade a demon's life for even a single mouthful of water that could save their own.
She takes the young demon to a deserted sect, only to find a register of future extinctions from three hundred years later in the ancestral storehouse. Worse still, every time she changes something, the list changes with it.
The ancestral storehouse can't provide endless food, and there are no ready-made divine weapons. To help the people and demons here survive, she can only begin with a well, a plot of land, and a contract that allows people to refuse.
Those who know how to fire pottery get paid. Those who can identify water are allowed to say no. Even the feathered folk who volunteer to help are free to leave. Ning Jianwei had thought building the city would be the hardest part.
Until her own name appeared in the disaster-struck city of the future.
A female lead building and managing a settlement, an ensemble cast of myriad clans, a mystery set in the future, and a slow-burn romance with a low-focus 1v1 pairing.
