[Heaven's Will] Takes

A promise made by the older generation entangles the fates of two young people who had nothing to do with each other.

"From today, I will keep you safe and free from worry for seven years. Once those seven years are up, whether you live or die will have nothing more to do with me."

Years later, You Haoxian thought back on it. If not for that promise, he would surely have become a wandering swordsman, roaming the world. But now...

If he had known then that things would turn out this way, would he have made a different choice? He didn't want to think about it.

If those two people had known their choice would give rise to this strange bond, I wonder what their expressions would have been.

Zi Ying could devote her whole life to a careless remark her mother made on her deathbed. So she could just as easily walk down a road of no return over a decision as insubstantial as a wisp of smoke.

"Because he's actually someone who gets fixated on things."

Yet he never noticed, nor even cared, how many people, how much promise, and how many lives his nearly obsessive determination had destroyed.

Still, fortunately, he didn't lose the most important person in the end.

That was enough.

This is a plot-driven story with an ultra-slow build. It heavily departs from the original Tian Xing characterization, so you can also read it as an original work. Updates are extremely slow, so for now I'm just posting a prologue to lure in readers, hehe.

That's it.