Tying the Red String

I deserve to die.

I know this with absolute certainty.

They think I deserve to die, too.

I look down at the people standing beneath the bones and ruins, no bigger than ants.

They're so weak I could crush them underfoot, yet they want to swarm me and kill me.

I deserve to die.

Because every day I live, someone dies, killed by "me."

Killing is my greatest pleasure.

I love the spray of blood.

I stand at the pinnacle of this world. Nothing can hold me back except the world itself.

I am the strongest. I cannot be killed easily.

Until one day, the protagonist of the world came looking for me. Our blood mingled, and we were both bound by the red thread of fate.

"Until I find a way to kill you, I'll keep you tied to my side!" The boy glared at me, his face stern with righteous indignation.

"Sure." I laughed, loudly and happily.

More than my own death, I look forward to watching your pure goodwill become stained black and devoured by the malice lurking in the world's shadows.

I'll wait for you to kill me.

Kid.

[Single pavilion: Yet another unique plot for an original novel published exclusively by yours truly.

#Maybe sweet on the outside, dark within, maybe purely good. The kind of pure goodness that knows right from wrong: kindhearted, but unwilling to show mercy to demons and monsters. A youthful top x an exceptionally powerful "old geezer" bottom in his fifties.

Righteous through and through, guarding his own heart: Bai Chuyou x a man who slaughtered countless lives and is extremely "selfish": Su Tu Sansheng (His original surname was Su, but after thousands of years, he forgot his name. All he remembers is the title people gave him after he slaughtered them back then.)

#The early story is mostly hatred, resentment, and fragments of memory. The old geezer has killed so many people that the pure-hearted young boy wants nothing more than to send him straight to hell, but the geezer is too invincible to take down.

#The boy will grow up, become an adult, and gradually change in outlook.

#I replaced the entire original story because I couldn't keep writing it.

#Although Old Man Su is called an old geezer, he actually looks young and handsome.

#Old Man Su is the strongest character in the story, but Bai keeps him in check as a living vessel. Old Man Su can kill anyone and nobody can beat him, except for this child of destiny. After Bai forcibly binds him, he can barely do anything. Old Man Su says, "You might as well just let me die." ]

Theme: Good and evil get what they deserve? What the hell does that have to do with me?