Star Pattern Contract

[Content Warnings]

- Both protagonists have severe childhood trauma, including depictions of suicide and abandonment.

- Bloody artistic creation coexists with rational deconstruction. Some scenes may be disturbing.

- The worldbuilding is complex and involves a cross-civilization consciousness network, so understanding the setting requires patience.

- The romance between the two male leads features intense conflict and deep dependence. This is not a conventional sweet romance.

- The ending is an open-ended coming-of-age resolution, focused on spiritual fusion rather than a conventional relationship.

When reason becomes an airtight prison, and emotion turns into a fire that consumes itself...

He Bingjun, the youngest ruler of a technological empire, and Lu Zhenshu, an infamous mad beauty of the art world, are chosen by the same ancient pattern at a blood-soaked auction. From then on, being more than ten meters apart brings on heart-pounding pain. Each feels the other's emotions, and their memories flow freely between them in their sleep.

One measures the world with a ruler. The other paints over it anew with pigment and blood.

Their forced symbiosis unveils a hidden chapter of history: deep in the cosmos lies a network of passageways connecting countless civilizations, and the paired builders are the kindling that sparks the evolution of civilization. Reason and emotion are no longer opposites, but the foundation for building an entirely new form of existence.

In the heartbeat they are forced to share, and in the wounds they inflict on each other only to heal, they begin to draw a circle that defies definition: a third kind of existence, neither a prison of reason nor a fire of emotion.

When absolute order meets absolute chaos, what they build is both a passage to the stars and a path home, deep into each other's souls.

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