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When Lu Yudong was a child, she was involved in a car accident that killed both her parents. The person who took her from the hospital was a woman who was always dressed like an ancient person and was as mesmerizingly beautiful as a poppy.
She said her name was Manzhu, a name taken from a flower that blooms on the road to the underworld.
The young child was innocent and naive; the person in front of her was her whole world.
She gently tugged on Manzhu’s sleeve, her eyes as sensitive as a wounded kitten: “Can I stay with you forever?”
Manzhu gently ruffled the wispy hair on her forehead and smiled, “Of course.”
Lu Yudong thought she had found a safe harbor, only to accidentally see Manzhu one night, trailing a dark-red serpent tail, flicking her tongue at a blurry black shadow outside the window. Terror instantly seized her, freezing her body.
It turned out that Manzhu was a snake spirit. After failing her heavenly tribulation, her life-soul was shattered, and she needed to perform a Soul-Bond with a human to prolong her life.
A Soul-Bound means sharing life span, sharing pain, and facing death together. It means… neither of them can ever leave the other for the rest of their lives.
In the beginning, the little child would burrow into her arms, tearfully pleading to accompany her for a lifetime when she grew up. Manzhu didn’t take it seriously.
Years later, she realized the child had always been sincere.
