An original practice piece. I’m no good at writing blurbs:
“Your fate in this life rests in your own heart. Ruo Ruo, go find what you cannot let go of.”
Qi Ruoyu spent four years traveling across the lands of Great Qi, all for the sake of a promise.
Everyone said she was merely the key to extending her senior sister’s life. Only her senior sister opened the cage and risked her life to give her freedom.
Amid the bustling streets and all the myriad lives of the mortal world, she traveled with her friends, hoping to simply watch from the sidelines. Yet strange cases kept finding her, and just after arriving in the capital, she crossed paths with the notorious, cold-faced King of Hell.
The heart that had resigned itself to fate somehow found its destiny quietly thrown into disarray at his side.
Su Zirui, one of the capital’s Four Young Masters, used his father’s influence to take charge of the courts and decide who lived or died. He was famed for his impartiality and ruthless methods.
When infants began disappearing in the capital, a commoner woman kept intercepting the crucial clues.
Amid layers of mystery, bizarre cases, and the pull of a fated bond, the two were forced to work together.
Love proved more perilous than solving cases. Just when they had finally given their hearts to each other, the woman he cherished became the object of many people’s desire, all because she was the key to paving a path back for a soul that should have gone to the underworld long ago.
As if! He would be the one to protect his woman!
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“Who matters more to you, me or Shen Nan?”
On a certain day in a certain month and year, Su Zirui suddenly asked her this.
A Ruo paused, then calmly looked away. “My older sister has been dead for so many years. What’s the point of asking that?”
Su Zirui narrowed his cold eyes, held her chin, and turned her face back toward him. “So, who matters more, me or her?”
“You both matter.” A Ruo pushed his hand away, speechless and wanting to laugh but not daring to. “You and she are both in my heart. Didn’t you know that the human heart has two chambers, one on the left and one on the right? You each live in one of mine.”
Using facts to deal with a question that could get her killed should work, right? A Ruo narrowed her eyes smugly.
Master Su, who could never resist her sweet words, felt his ears grow warm. He lowered his head to kiss her, a glint flashing in his eyes, and firmly declared, “I want the left side.”
In Great Qi, the left was the place of honor. He had to be the most important person in her heart.
A Ruo froze, her eyes gleaming with amusement. “But my sister got there first. We can’t exactly make her move, can we?”
Su Zirui’s gaze turned cold. “Then make her leave. She’s not allowed to live there anymore.”
Theme: No matter the circumstances, one should always strive to make the most of life
I think the best character is the monk 😂
So your purpose is to eat tiramisu?