Southern Files: The Heartbound Pact

Updates daily at 6:30. This is a tearjerker with a happy ending. My next novel will be a campus story or an infinite-flow story. I like cheesy tropes, and I love your comments. Wishing all readers happiness every day.

Killing the one you love is a calamity the Zhang twins cannot escape.

Zhang Hailou personally drove a dagger into Zhang Haixia's heart after ancient Qiang sorcery completely backfired on him and turned him dark. The words "Hailou," meant only for him, became a hallucination that haunted him for the rest of his life.

He thought his bone-deep remorse would stay buried forever, until an unsigned secret letter suddenly arrived on his desk: "Xincheng. Something has happened in Nanqiang. We need to work together."

Zhang Hailou brought along his mischievous, lively disciple Zhang Haidou and the thoughtful, level-headed Zhang Haichan. Together, they set out along the treacherous ancient road through Nanqiang, bound for Xincheng in search of the truth.

A village of lost souls, an ancient tomb of twins, an ancient spell of joined hearts, lingering spirits in a forbidden land... One mysterious case after another slowly reveals the past. An old knife, a pottery flask, tea shared late at night: countless little keepsakes tug at the feelings Hailou has buried deep in his heart.

This restrained, deep love, hidden in the Zhang family's thousand-year-old fate, will finally find its long-delayed moment of unity in the forbidden land of Nanqiang.

Theme: Pain cannot hold back those who keep moving forward, and even obsession can become a force for overcoming adversity.