After I Bound Myself to the Ancient Culture Inheritance System

[The reason I stopped updating and disappeared for so long was that both my family and I were sick. We only gradually got better by the middle of this year. I've been slowly writing this novel in private, and I'll post updates once it's finished. I'm sorry it took so long to respond.]

"Beep. A Host meeting the binding requirements has been detected. Beginning binding..."

Wen Zhaoxi, a student at Jing University’s Chinese Painting Academy.

On graduation day, she receives a strange letter containing an old deed to a property on an expensive old street in Jing City.

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At first, tourists who wander into the shop by chance simply find its wares exquisite and charmingly antique, and casually take one home.

But observant people soon discover that every single item sold is made using a craft or technique that has been lost or is on the verge of disappearing!

What's more, tourists who take home the shop's wares find that their most pressing problems suddenly take a turn for the better. Could the things in this shop really bring people good fortune?

Gradually, stories about Wen Zhaoxi's little shop grow more and more outlandish, but the countless tourists and artisans who come in search of it mostly leave empty-handed.

There's only one reason: not everyone can see the shop.

Fortunately, to boost her business, Wen Zhaoxi opens a Weibo account.

She picks the most popular question and replies:

Netizen: How can I see your shop on an old street in Jing City? QAQ

Answer: First, be sincere. Second, be kind. Third, fate.

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Important!

The heroine's golden finger is powerful, and both her combat skills and craftsmanship are top-tier.

The focus is on her career. The romance won't take up much of the story.

This is an entirely fictional setting. Extremely fictional!

Cool, aloof older woman x devoted dog who plays favorites

When people are swept along by desire and rush forward without being able to see the road ahead, someone clears the path they'd come from, a path the world has forgotten.

I didn't have much inspiration for my two previous upcoming novels, so I replaced them. If you've saved them, take a look! If they aren't your thing, please remember to unsave them. Mwah!

Here's my new upcoming novel, "The White Moonlight Who Was Destined to Die Wakes Up," also featuring an older-woman-and-doting-dog dynamic.

Song Hanzhi, a delicate beauty born frail and sickly, who gets out of breath after walking just three steps.

She was supposed to spend her life chasing the male lead, taking breaks now and then to serve as a foil to the heroine, until she suddenly fell ill and died at twenty-six. But heaven had mercy on her, and she awakened on her twenty-fourth birthday.

The good news: As the main supporting woman in the melodramatic novel "Chasing the Movie Emperor's Love: The Adorable Idol, Slow Down," she has a fully fleshed-out character, with scandals all over the entertainment industry and the title of the early-death white moonlight.

The bad news: She's the white moonlight of the story's biggest villain. After she dies, the villain, who was never exactly cheerful to begin with, goes completely dark, targeting the male lead until he ends up bankrupt and insane.

Song Hanzhi's response: The character setup is great. Don't do it again. :)

How can she save her villainous younger brother from going down the path of darkness?

Song Hanzhi thinks it over and decides that instead of waiting for him to go crazy, she might as well go crazy first. After all, she only has two years left to live.

Her most obvious craziness shows up in her Weibo posts.

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"Why does Song Hanzhi keep chasing Han Ling? Is she going to keep throwing herself at him forever?"

"Mm-hmm, as soon as he gives back all the resources I've given him, I won't chase him anymore~"

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"First she clings to the movie emperor, then to an idol. Are you going to die before you can get famous on your own?"

"Mm-hmm, I'm going to die anyway. Just let me have this~"

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"Can you stay away from my girl? Why do you keep acting like you're about to die? Who are you putting on that act for?"

"But your girl loves this about me. Heehee ^+^"

Song Hanzhi spends two years being a shameless mess and going completely crazy,

sends the male lead packing from the entertainment industry, turns the lovesick heroine into a cool, stone-faced woman, and raises her gloomy younger brother into a 'sunny sweetheart';

feeling deeply satisfied, she finishes writing a retirement announcement and prepares to lie at home and wait to die, only for her 'sweetheart' to show up at her door.

The little 'sweetheart' sits by her bed, takes her hand, and smiles in a very unsettling way.

"Sis, I swear."

"You will never die before I do."

A laid-back older sister x a gloomy little puppy

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No blood relation. Both are virgins.

The male lead is dark, but the heroine isn't.

Theme: Cultural heritage is a treasure of humanity.