Somewhere in the valley of forgotten dynasties, beneath a sky torn by the red glow of a cursed moon…
The wind keened through the ruins of Xiang Manor, where time no longer dared to move forward. Stone lanterns wept with moss, and the earth itself trembled beneath the weight of a vow never meant to be uttered.
She stood at the altar, nameless in this life, her red veil soaked with rain and sorrow. Her hands bled from the thorned rosewood rosary wrapped around her wrists—an offering of flesh to balance the price of fate.
"If time must steal him from me," she whispered, "then let my soul burn across lifetimes to find him again."
A single drop of her blood struck the jade pendant at her chest. It sizzled, split, and the ChronoKey beneath began to pulse—one heartbeat, two heartbeats, then silence.
The broken sundial above twisted in defiance of heaven, its shadow stretching into midnight though dawn was still hours away. A red moon swelled in the sky, and in the ruins' edge, a figure in black watched.
Eyes like obsidian. Skin like pale smoke. The man didn't move.
"You've cursed yourself," he murmured.
She turned, and beneath the veil, her eyes met his—full of knowing. Full of doom.
"Then we are cursed together."
And when thunder cracked the sky like a judgment, the world shattered.
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