Bonebound

Zhe Yang has two little secrets: One: he can't die. Two: he attracts evil spirits. Not being able to die means he can't be killed, heals incredibly fast, and feels no pain. Attracting evil spirits means more than simply drawing them in: the more wicked and vicious they are, the more they love him. They love him so much they want to eat him. His effect is comparable to that of Tang Monk's flesh. Keeping his little secrets to himself, Zhe Yang diligently runs an “ordinary” umbrella shop. He takes on jobs that ordinary people can't handle, asking only for offerings and merit from his customers. All the offerings go to his good friend Jing Xuan, who has been dead for hundreds of years, in hopes of bringing him back to life. Jing Xuan had been buried underground for nearly a thousand years. Something went wrong when he was revived: he came back as nothing but a skeleton, wreathed in auras of misfortune, with only two instincts left. One was to kill. The other was Zhe Yang. As long as Zhe Yang was nearby, the skeleton stayed perfectly still. The moment Zhe Yang stepped away, even just a little, the skeleton wanted to wreak havoc everywhere. So Zhe Yang had no choice but to take the skeleton back to the umbrella shop and keep collecting offerings. As the offerings gradually piled up, flesh slowly grew over the bones and the skeleton regained his mind. He became devastatingly handsome, but still couldn't shake his vicious instincts. Only, those two instincts had changed. One was Zhe Yang. The other was still Zhe Yang. I'll stay by your side through the world's turmoil, and be there when life returns to your bones. Jing Xuan x Zhe Yang Theme: Holding on to love amid chaos.