Bone-Tangling

Connections are fragile. The person you care about the most is the anchor that makes you most vulnerable. If he breaks the thread, you will not only lose a bone thread, but a part of "existence" itself. In Bone City, relationships are the laws of physics. Every relationship is a bone thread extending from the body to another person. When the bones are broken, the person will not die, but "never existed" - the name has been erased, the traces have returned to zero, and even forgetting has never happened. Shen Que is the only one with zero clues. No bones, but more real than anyone else. He can touch every bone, feel the temperature of love and hate, and can also pinch it with his own hands - at the cost of cracking a crack in his body. The Boneweaver rings the bone bell regularly, causing all bone filaments of a certain type to break. The intervals are getting shorter and shorter, and the city is stalling. A girl who only remembers hatred, a brother who cannot remember why he is loyal, and a woman who can never be forgotten - they are desperately trying to grow new bone threads in the gaps between broken threads, knowing that the next time the bell rings, it will be cut again. Some choose to build more relationships, some choose to cut it all off. Shen Que chose the third path. At the end of the road, he discovered that he was once the rule itself.