Offering to the Ancestors

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A 3.7-million-word urban girls' love ensemble, with a long-running story, hundreds of characters, intricately intertwined relationships, and an expansive, complete plot. Every character's fate is linked, with a sense of destiny running through the entire story.

First 700,000 words: power struggles and conspiracies x battles of human nature x emotional threads laid in parallel

This story does not leave its emotional relationships undeveloped. Built on the foundation of capitalist power struggles, industry conspiracies, and clashes among the elite, tentative love and hate, along with tangled relationships, unfold throughout. Power plays are the bones, emotions the threads. Together they gradually weave an immense game of fame and fortune, laying a firm foundation for the fateful entanglements of the entire cast to come.

Final three million words: the main story gradually shifts toward the emotional ties and fates of the entire cast

Business battles and power struggles gradually recede into the backdrop, while the core of the story turns to the obsessions, push and pull, power balance, and mad love of hundreds of characters.

The story's future direction, the characters' choices, and the resolutions of their relationships are all still open. There is no predetermined plot or fixed ending. The story unfolds slowly over the long term, layer by layer. Every entanglement of love and hate is still being written.

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In the uppermost circles of capital, everyone chases profit and power. Hearts are cold, and schemes abound.

Qu Si is caught in the middle of a power game. Her twin younger sisters scheme against her at every turn, and when she is driven to the brink, she fakes her death to escape and vanishes completely.

Through the years she lies low at the bottom, her childhood friend Xin Xing is the only one who stays by her side.

A casual remark made when they were thirteen is remembered as a solemn promise. For her eighteenth birthday, a Harry Winston diamond ring worth 3.7 billion fulfills their childhood vow. When she regains her strength and rises again, a grand wedding at Chateau Lamothe in France crowns her with a custom 137.37-carat rare purple diamond ring, "Eternal Peace for the Sacrifice." Valued at 420 billion, this extravagant gift promises her peace and security in a troubled world.

During the time Qu Si remains out of sight, the twin sisters spend trillions to build the most secretive top-tier private club in their circles, on a prime stretch of Beijing's central axis: Jusi.

The entire complex costs trillions to build, with thirty-seven floors and a vertical depth of 420 meters. Its exterior is minimalist and solemn, while its interior conceals every luxury of the elite. It is never open to the general public.

The bar for entry is extremely high, with a minimum spend of 370 million. A single spend of 3.7 billion earns you an exception: a private audience with the two mistresses of the city and a taste of an exclusive signature cocktail.

At the very center of the grand hall stands a 3.7-meter-tall solid-gold angel statue, costing 52 billion. The statue is gilded from head to toe, with outstretched wings and a saintly bearing. This one-of-a-kind image of a deity has a face that is an exact replica of Qu Si's.

The signature cocktail was originally named "The Seventh Day of the Third Month," after her birthday. It was a thought shared only between the two of them. Later, its name was changed to "Sacrifice, Then Rebirth," holding within it the obsession and hope of "the sacrifice is gone, yet lives on; the past is offered up as a tribute, and we quietly await rebirth."

A city of Jusi, built with trillions, jointly raised by the twins.

Not for power, profit, or wealth.

Year after year, for a lifetime, it is an offering to one person alone, a memorial to a past that has yet to return.

When trouble rises again and familiar faces return, Qu Si's identity is once more exposed to the elite. The twin sisters implant a cutting-edge nanotech symbiotic chip at the back of her neck and seal it with an unbreakable pact of life and death: as long as the twins are safe, all three are safe; if both twins perish, all three will meet the same end. Their fates are bound together from then on.

This has never been a story about just three people. Hundreds of characters are connected to one another, and an immense web of fate envelops the entire upper class. Once drawn into the game, no one can escape unscathed. Not a single person can get out.

In 700,000 words, the masks of capital are torn away and a vast game of strategy is laid out;

In three million words, the obsessions in people's hearts are explored in depth, and the desperate entanglements of the abyss are written in full.

Elite power struggles, extreme obsession, consuming fixation, and unbreakable bonds.

Every story unfolds slowly, the writing never ceases, and the final chapter is nowhere in sight.

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[Note: This synopsis shows only the tip of the iceberg: a few iconic scenes and the core setting. The characters' relationships, hidden pasts, layers of scheming, and tangles of love and hate fill the book on an enormous scale. The countless details and deeper plotlines are all left for the main story to explore layer by layer and reveal in time.]

Content warnings

[Urban girls' love | Semi-fictional setting | Everyone is a villain | Industry conspiracies | Massive ensemble cast | Not mutually exclusive | No moral compass | No ethics | Poor vocabulary | Grade-school writing | Bizarre | Illogical] You can insult me, but don't insult my children. They're all good kids.

"This story shares a 'capitalist city' setting with Long Love, Sleepless Nights, Star Remains (girls' love), Endless Rain, Knowing the Years but Not You, Night Talks in the West Pavilion, and Chu Sheng's Downfall (boys' love). Characters may make crossover appearances, but each story is a standalone work."

Theme: If you want something, go after it and don't let go