Tong Yueling, a senior in high school, had lost both her parents. She worked a low-paying job in the library, believing that was all her bleak life would ever amount to.
Until the man the entire city of Hai called a "living corpse" walked through the warmly lit room and stopped in front of her.
"I found you."
He was Zuo Yuan, the eldest young master of the Zuo family, a man both the underworld and the legitimate world knew to steer clear of. To everyone else, he was as cold as if he were looking at a pile of dead things. Only with her did his hollow eyes take on the warmth of the living. For over a decade, he had been tortured every month by a "heart-devouring pain" that felt as if his heart were being carved out. Yet one unintentional moment when she helped steady him miraculously eased the pain.
"You're my medicine, Yue'er."
She was afraid of him, afraid of the way he looked at her as if she were a treasure he'd lost and found again, one he would never let go of. But she also felt for him. When the pain became unbearable, he held her like a child who had been lost for millions of years.
The ancient Demon Lord had carved up his divine soul so she could be reborn, then searched for her through a thousand years of reincarnations. In this life, he would never let go again.
"Even if the world returns to chaos, I'll find you and bring you back from the chaos."
