The scarlet tide hunts humans. The 19-year-old Ji Xing travels through the steel cage "Metropolis" with the trauma of being "unloved", but is dragged into the whirlpool of fate by the double contract——
The scarlet lord Chu Liao (22 years old) is a piece of candy that cannot be shaken off: he is branded with the word "Jin" for mental control, he is carried back to the castle, fed burnt bread, and he declares in a wicked way, "You are my destiny, there is no escape" (yandere's possessiveness × clingy attachment);
The snake beastman Bai Yanlin (18 years old) is the silver lightning of the Tao protector: he hides his scales on his clothes, turns into his tail to block the knife at night when he flees, and silently says "I will take you away" (pure protection × scale contract symbiosis).
When the scorching heat of the brand hit the dim light of the contract, Ji Xing clutched the brass pocket watch (it was rumored that he could ask "will you marry me?"), And saw clearly on the third day of escape: what he wanted to escape was never a monster, but the fate of "being defined by being chosen."
In the rusty iron smell of the Gothic wasteland, the struggle for double contracts, love and freedom are intertwined - the clingy lord always messes up when learning to "line up", the man-stealing snake beast teaches him to take shape to protect himself, the destined one awakens the power of the "tide regulator", and finally creates a "taste of home" in the Garden of Forgetfulness.
When a clingy person meets a robbing person, is the 19-year-old escapee locked in by fate, or has he... Found his home?
(Yandere × Guardian/Double contract confrontation turns to symbiosis/Dark romance merges with sweet pets/Self-redemption of Stockholm Syndrome patients)
Intention: Using the double contract of "sticky possession × silent protection" to turn from confrontation to symbiosis, the destiny writer's journey awakens in trauma, breaks the fate of "being chosen means being defined", and uses love and harmony to interpret the true meaning of "being needed" - not to escape, but to stand side by side with the double contract, and live "escape" as a sweet redemption of "returning".