Soul Shatter

Story temporarily on hold for a major revision. Halfway through writing, I realized a lot of details hadn't been explained. The story involves past and present lives, schemes in the past and love in the present, so I need time to revise it., Left here on 20260801

The bright moon resembles my former self. I follow a dream within a dream, as if hearing the wind within the wind, and glimpse the soul within a person.

[Story Synopsis]

People say that five hundred glances in a past life buy you one chance encounter in this life.

Then how many times might countless entanglements in a past life bring you together in this one?

The answer was obvious to Bancheng. It even made her want to laugh, though it was a laugh so absurd it was even more ridiculous than someone, somewhere, sometime, telling her she was born with the destiny of a princess.

One night, drunk, she dreamed of a man. He looked exactly like the person she had to kill. Only then did she finally remember that the reason she was alive in this era was to take revenge: to avenge the sword thrust from long ago, and the slaughter of her entire clan.

Alas, fate told her she was getting ahead of herself.

She opened the history books and searched her long memories for that man. Her enemy had died more than four hundred years before the Common Era. There was no grave, no bones, no trace left to seek.

That person had gone lifetime after lifetime without being reborn. Their fates remained apart, their karmic debt already settled. In the end, she had no way to take revenge, and no enemy left to avenge. How absurd, how absurd, how absurd...

Note: Past and present lives, fate and cause, schemes and love.

Theme: Life is long. If you love, love wholeheartedly.