When Sheng Anzhu, an ordinary high school student, sings the song her mother left behind by the river, she has no idea that her fate has quietly changed. A glowing ring and a mysterious transfer student named Que Yue suddenly appear, pulling her into a world that exists between life and death: the underworld's apprentice guides of the dead.
Character Profiles:
Sheng Anzhu: On the surface, she is a quiet girl with ordinary grades who lives under the care of relatives. In truth, she is the inheritor of a rare talent for songs of the dead. The ring her mother left behind when she died young is a spiritual artifact that can connect the worlds of the living and the dead. Whenever she sings a song of the dead, the ring glows, awakening a calm, decisive, even ruthless self deep inside her. This other side is necessary to wield the artifact's power.
Que Yue: The underworld's fourth-ranked guide of the dead. He is carefree and unconventional, and suddenly appears at school disguised as a human high school student, becoming Sheng Anzhu's deskmate and "guardian." With silver eyes and a body made of energy, he seems sharp-tongued and lazy, but he has taken on the responsibility of guiding and protecting her. His past has a profound, unspoken connection to Sheng Anzhu's mother.
Bai Enmu: Sheng Anzhu's "perfect" cousin, a campus beauty who is gentle, proper, and always looking out for her, yet makes Sheng Anzhu feel intensely pressured by comparison. Beneath the calm surface of her soul, something seems to be stirring, and she pays an unusually close attention to the changes in Sheng Anzhu.
Worldbuilding:
The boundary between the human world and the underworld is not an impenetrable wall. Powerful obsessions, unfulfilled wishes, and deep resentment can all cause souls to linger. The duty of singers of the dead, beings who resonate with souls through special songs, is to listen to these lost souls, understand them, and guide them, maintaining the balance between life and death. But this power comes at a price: loss of control over one's senses, emotional changes, and a shattering of one's sense of self.
Theme: Fantasy romance, healing through personal growth
