[Written in 2027; synopsis provisional; mortal x evil immortal]
Xie Chunjiu is twenty-three and has a life as hard as nails.
She grew up without a mother or father, then grew up to be the reason two fiances died. Her shop went bankrupt, her house collapsed, her fields flooded, and even the dogs on the street went out of their way to avoid her.
A knowledgeable elder kindly advised her: "Miss, have you offended something?"
Xie Chunjiu remembered that ten years earlier, to save a faithless man, she'd snapped off a jade-bright branch from an old tree on Luoming Mountain.
Kneeling beneath the tree, she'd pretended to be devout. "Great immortal, kind immortal! I'll borrow a piece of your immortal bone for now. I swear I'll make offerings every day and recite scriptures every night. In ten years, I'll return it... return the bone to its rightful owner."
When she looked up, the knowledgeable elder had already run far away, fleeing in a panic.
A huge, ink-black shadow rose behind her. It slowly leaned down and asked with a deliciously captivating voice, laughing darkly:
"Oh? You finally remembered me?"
A strange-tales story featuring a pantheon of immortals
Theme: Break free of constraints and be reborn.
