Soulbound, Dreaming of Shouyue

Chasing Dreams Through the Layers, Imagining Divinity into Being.

Long ago, there were two children. The girl wanted to become a god revered by all, doing good deeds throughout the mortal world. The boy said to her, "You can sit high upon the divine dais as a god, and I'll be your devotee." In this way, the girl became a god imagined into existence. But the boy kept his word. When they grew up, he built her a divine dais and temple, and spread her name far and wide. Someone saw through the girl's disguise, said she was merely an imaginary god, and came to destroy her temple. All her believers left. Only the boy stayed to protect her. Even to the very end, the boy still regarded her as a god. He rebuilt her temple so that people would worship her after her death. Perhaps the girl had accumulated enough good karma, because in the end she truly became a god. But the boy continued to experience reincarnation in the mortal world, so the girl built a temple for herself on the land where he was reborn each time, watching over the peace of the region. At last, she could protect the only follower she had ever had, while the boy remained her most devout worshipper.

What should have been nothing more than an imagined dream began to grow into something real, as the one imagined was repeatedly protected and sincerely followed by someone who truly cared.