Threads That Bind Fate

Zhang Chacha spent years pretending to be a coward.

He was born defiant. When others controlled puppets, he pulled the strings in reverse. When others drew out threads, he turned them against their masters.

He fought his way from the Lightless Abyss to the Ninth-Story Theater, climbing from a theater slave to the Severed Thread Realm, all to save his mother, whose heartstring had been pulled out, and the woman he had led along the way, only to be forgotten by her in the end.

Until he fought his way to the very top...