I’ll Give You My Kingdom and Cherish You for a Lifetime

Prologue

The world is vast, yet it seems that no matter where you go, darkness can always be found, even above the nine heavens.

I have borne the guilt for nine lifetimes. Life after life, I have been trapped in an endless cycle of reincarnation, drifting through it in a daze, never knowing when it would end. Though I knew in my heart that it could never end, I kept deceiving myself, telling myself that perhaps this would be my last life. Clinging to that shattered, fragile thought, I came to my tenth life of reincarnation.

When I was eight, I was still a little girl, drifting alone through this dim, colorless world. I met...